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Southern cultures : the fifteenth anniversary reader / edited by Harry L. Watson and Larry J. Griffin ; with Lisa Eveleigh ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern States--Civilization.
- Southern States.
- Civilization.
- Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 507 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Front Porch / Harry L. Watson, Larry J. Griffin xi
- A Moveable Mason-Dixon Line
- Southern Distinctiveness, Yet Again, or, Why America Still Needs the South (6:3) / Larry J. Griffin 3
- Chicago as the Northernmost County of Mississippi (8:1) / Anthony Walton 22
- Teaching Gone with the Wind in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (11:3) / Mart Stewart 32
- Haiku (4:4) / C. Vann Woodward 49
- Intractable Identity
- Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past, 1885-1915 (Inaugural Issue) / Catherine W. Bishir 53
- The Southern Accent-Alive and Well (Inaugural Issue) / Michael Montgomery 94
- The Banner That Won't Stay Furled (8:1) / John Shelton Reed 114
- Living with Confederate Symbols (8:1) / Franklin Forts 132
- The New Days of Yore
- Rednecks, White Socks, and Pina Coladas?: Country Music Ain't What It Used to Be ... And It Really Never Was (5:4) / James C. Cobb 147
- "Where Is the Love?": Racial Violence, Racial Healing, and Blues Communities (12:4) / Adam Gussow 155
- The Strange Career of Atticus Finch (6:2) / Joseph Crespino 175
- Rituals of Initiation and Rebellion: Adolescent Responses to Segregation in Southern Autobiography (3:2) / Melton McLaurin 194
- Colliding Cultures
- Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South (3:1) / Theda Perdue 211
- A Sense of Place: Jews, Blacks, and White Gentiles in the American South (3:1) / David Goldfield 225
- Martin Luther King and the Southern Dream of Freedom (11:4) / Timothy B. Tyson 244
- Our Lady of Guadeloupe Visits the Confederate Memorial (8:2) / Thomas A. Tweed 255
- And the Dead Shall Rise: An Overview (11:4) / Steve Oney 272
- Regional Stereotypes
- Kudzu: A Tale of Two Vines (7:3) / Derek H. Alderman, Donna G'Segner Alderman 287
- A Short History of Redneck: The Fashioning of a Southern White Masculine Identity (1:2) / Patrick Huber 303
- "Where the Sun Set Crimson and the Moon Rose Red": Writing Appalachia and the Kentucky Mountain Feuds (2:3/4) / Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee 328
- The "Tennessee Test of Manhood": Professional Wrestling and Southern Cultural Stereotypes (3:3) / Louis M. Kyriakoudes, Peter A. Coclanis 353
- "How 'bout a Hand for the Hog": The Enduring Nature of the Swine as a Cultural Symbol in the South (1:3) / S. Jonathan Bass 371
- Southern Traditions
- Equine Relics of the Civil War (6:1) / Drew Gilpin Faust 391
- The Most Southern Sport on Earth: NASCAR and the Unions (7:2) / Dan Pierce 409
- African American Humor and the South (1:4) / Trudier Harris 434
- Sister Act: Sorority Rush as Feminine Performance (5:3) / Elizabeth Boyd 445
- The Death of Southern Heroes: Historic Funerals of the South (1:2) / Charles Reagan Wilson 462.
- Notes:
- "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807832127
- 080783212X
- 9780807858806
- 0807858803
- OCLC:
- 180989426
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