The Southern way of life : meanings of culture and civilization in the American South / Charles Reagan Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Charles Reagan, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Social life and customs.

Southern States.

Southern States--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (615 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

Since the eighteenth century, a range of thinkers, artists, writers, and critics have wrestled with the notion that something distinct characterizes life in the American South. But in this sweeping new intellectual and cultural history, Charles Reagan Wilson reveals that there has never been a singular understanding of this 'Southern way of life'.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART I. SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION

Chapter One. Southern Civilization: Imagining the Southern Way through Reconstruction

Southern Civilization in the Colonial South

Thomas Jefferson and Civilization

Native Americans and Enslaved Africans

Abolitionism

A Southern Civil Religion

A Distinctive and Distinguished Civilization

Anxieties about Southern Civilization before the Civil War

The Southern Creed

Defense of Slavery

Arguments about Civilization

Confederate Civilization

Reconstruction's Clarification of Civilization

Chapter Two. Reimagining Southern Civilization: Adapting Civilization to New Regional, National, and International Contexts

The Lost Cause

New South

Agrarian Movements

Reforming the Countryside

Workers in the New South

Victorianism

Racism

Segregated Society

Lynchings

Sectional Reconciliation

Problem South

Folkloric Primitivism

Critical Thinking

"Negro Civilization"

Crummell and Uplift

Atlanta Compromise

Washington's Materialistic Civilization

Du Bois's Southern Veil and Western Civilization

Du Bois's Spiritual Civilization

African Americans Look North and to Africa

Progressive Era Triumphalism

Evangelical Missions

Woodrow Wilson

PART II. SOUTHERN WAY OF LIFE

Chapter Three. Agrarian Way: Regional Consciousness and Southern Tradition

Crisis in Civilization

The Agrarians from the Lost Cause to the Modern Way

Planning the Manifesto

I'll Take My Stand

Debating I'll Take My Stand

The Thirties

Race and Agrarianism

Moral and Spiritual Meanings

Chapter Four. Searching for the Southern Way in a Time of Transition: Culture, Civilization, and Way of Life in the Interwar Years

Culture and Way of Life.

A Business Way

Lost Cause and Tourism

Folklore and Popular Culture

Howard Odum and Southern Sociology

Critical Perspectives

Poor Whites

Interracial Southern Way

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin

Herman Clarence Nixon

Charles Johnson

Chapter Five. The Rising Racial Way: The Evolving Southern Racial Context in the Interwar Years

Segregation and Racial Etiquette

Social Scientists

William Alexander Percy

Ku Klux Klan and Fundamentalism

Respectable White Supremacy

Race-Baiting Politicians

Moderate Segregationists

African Americans and the Southern Way

African American Folk Culture

Richard Wright

Zora Neale Hurston

World War II

Fascism and W. J. Cash

World War II and Race Relations

What the Negro Wants

Interracial Movement

American Way of Life

An American Dilemma

Racism and Social Class Issues

Postwar Context

Chapter Six. Revolutions and Counterrevolutions: Challenging and Defending the Southern Way in the Civil Rights Era

Post-World War II

Race and Conservative Ideology

Dixiecrats

Early 1950s

Highlander Folk School and Lillian Smith

Brown Decision and Southern White Reaction

The Citizens' Council and Emmett Till

Popularization of "Southern Way of Life"

Segregationist Ideology

Rebirth of the Lost Cause

Massive Resistance

Moderate Intellectuals, Politicians, and Neopopulists

The Civilized Way

The Mannered Way

National Culture and the South

The Great Debate: Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Williams

African American Civil Religion

The Lasting South

Sit-Ins and Changing Regional Consciousness

The Civil Rights Movement in the Mid-1960s

PART III. SOUTHERN LIVING

Chapter Seven. Imagining New Ways for the South: Adjustment to Change, Economic Ways, Interracial Ways, Conservative Ways.

Economic Development

Southern Business Way of Life

National Image

White Working Class

Ideology of the Biracial South

Redemptive South

Organizations of the Biracial South

Ideology of the Conservative Southern Way

Americanization of the South, Southernization of the Nation

Chapter Eight. Southern Living: Constructing Southern Ways in the Contemporary Era

I'll Still Take My Stand

Southern Living

Southern Style

Suburban, Middle-Class, Individualist

Conservatism

New South for New Southerners

Religion and Southern Living

Culture Wars, Civil Religion, and Megachurches

Race and Southern Living

Clifton Taulbert

Country Cosmopolitanism, Stankonia, and Soul

Racial Reconciliation and National Redemption

Hybrid Southern Way

Chapter Nine. Into the Twenty-First Century: Multicultural Southern Living

Diverse Southern Identities

The Newest Southerners

The South through the National Lens

The South Still Remembers

Culture and Diverse Southern Living

Foodways

Telling about the South Again

Struggles to Define Southern Living

Author's Note

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 12, 2024).

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ISBN:

979-88-908715-2-7

979-88-908715-3-4

1-4696-6500-X

OCLC:

1352975069