The new South : new histories / edited by J. William Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, J. William, 1946-

Series:

Rewriting histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Southern States--History--1865-1951.

Southern States.

History.

Southern States--Historiography.

Southern States--Social conditions--1865-1945.

Social conditions.

Southern States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xi, 361 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

William Harris, the editor of Routledges The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture, aims in The New South to introduce students to the historiography of this later volatile period of southern history, which starts from the racial segregation prevalent after the end of the Civil War and continues through the Civil Rights Movements of the 1950s and 1960s. For many years, this historiography centered on the writing of C. Vann Woodward. Woodward remains an important touchstone in the field, but in The New South, Harris gathers the most significant scholarship illustrating the range of challenges to Woodwards interpretation of the South, including the importance of place, the role of women, the significance of memory, and the story of the long Civil Rights Movement. The collection also features an introduction to the historiography of the New South.

Contents:

1 Negotiating and transforming the public sphere: African American political life in the transition from slavery to freedom / Elsa Barkley Brown 12

2 A changing world of work: North Carolina elite women, 1865-1895 / Jane Turner Censer 43

3 Farmers, dudes, white Negroes, and the sun-browned goddess / Stephen Kantrowitz 67

4 Etiquette, lynching, and racial boundaries in southern history: a Mississippi example / J. William Harris 88

5 New women / Nancy A. Hewitt 113

6 Defiance and domination: "white Negroes" in the Piney Woods New South / Victoria E. Bynum 138

7 Pilgrimage to the past: public history, women, and the racial order / Jack E. Davis 160

8 Le reveil de la Louisiane: memory and Acadian identity, 1920-1960 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage 186

9 Southern seeds of change, 1931-1938 / Patricia Sullivan 210

10 "You must remember this": autobiography as social critique / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 239

11 "You don't have to ride Jim Crow": CORE and the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation / Raymond Arsenault 265

12 Bombingham / Glenn T. Eskew 295

13 Sex, segregation, and the sacred after Brown / Jane Dailey 324.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415957304

0415957303

9780415957311

0415957311

OCLC:

145939969

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