1st Edition
Magnolias without Moonlight The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration
By Sheldon Hackney
Copyright 2005
165 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
165 Pages
by
Routledge
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The eleven ex-Confederate states continue to be thoroughly American and at the same time an exception to the national mainstream. The region's dual personality, how it came into being, and the purposes and interests it served is examined here, as well as its central role in the politics and "culture wars" flowing from the transformative Civil Rights Movement and the other social justice movements... Read more
Introduction, 1. Southern Violence, 2. Origins of the New South in Retrospect, 3. “Origins of the New South in Retrospect” Thirty Years Later, 4. The South as a Counterculture, 5. The Clay County Origins of Justice Black: The Populist as Insider, 6. Little Rock and the Promise of America, 7. C. Vann Woodward, 1908–1999: In Memoriam, 8. The Contradictory South, 9. Identity Politics, Southern Style, 10. Shades of Freedom in America, Index
Biography
Sheldon Hackney
