Away down South: a history of Southern identity / James C. Cobb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Southern States--History.

Group identity.

Southern States--Civilization.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this unique synthesis of political, cultural, and intellectual history, James C. Cobb spans more than two centuries in tracing the origins and development of the South as not just an exception to the national rule, but as an internal 'other' against which American nationhood was defined.

Contents:

Cavalier and Yankee : the origins of Southern "otherness"

The South becomes a cause

The New South and the old cause

The Southern Renaissance and the revolt against the New South creed

Southern writers and "the impossible load of the past"

The mind of the South

The South of guilt and shame

No North, no South? the crisis of Southern white identity

Successful, optimistic, prosperous, and bland : telling about the No South

Blackness and Southernness : African Americans look south toward home

Divided by a common past : history and identity in the contemporary South

The South and the politics of identity.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771158-8

0-19-983930-1

1-280-44305-7

1-4237-4557-4

0-19-802501-7

1-60129-981-8

OCLC:

780968821