THE SOUTHERN HERITAGE
Author | : James M. Dabbs |
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Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : James M. Dabbs |
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Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Berry McCormack Smith |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Jackson County (Mo.) |
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Author | : William Horace Brown |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Inheritance and succession |
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Author | : Berry McCormack Smith |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Jackson County (Mo.) |
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An illustrated lineage of Berry McCormack Smith with extensive documentation.
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Alabama |
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Author | : James C. Cobb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2005-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198025017 |
From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see itself--as a region apart from the rest of America. As Cobb demonstrates, the legend of the aristocratic Cavalier origins of southern planter society was nurtured by both northern and southern writers, only to be challenged by abolitionist critics, black and white. After the Civil War, defeated and embittered southern whites incorporated the Cavalier myth into the cult of the "Lost Cause," which supplied the emotional energy for their determined crusade to rejoin the Union on their own terms. After World War I, white writers like Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner and other key figures of "Southern Renaissance" as well as their African American counterparts in the "Harlem Renaissance"--Cobb is the first to show the strong links between the two movements--challenged the New South creed by asking how the grandiose vision of the South's past could be reconciled with the dismal reality of its present. The Southern self-image underwent another sea change in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when the end of white supremacy shook the old definition of the "Southern way of life"--but at the same time, African Americans began to examine their southern roots more openly and embrace their regional, as well as racial, identity. As the millennium turned, the South confronted a new identity crisis brought on by global homogenization: if Southern culture is everywhere, has the New South become the No South? Here then is a major work by one of America's finest Southern historians, a magisterial synthesis that combines rich scholarship with provocative new insights into what the South means to southerners and to America as well.
Author | : Thurman Sensing |
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Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1947* |
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Author | : Will Beeson |
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Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Group identity |
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Author | : Southern Heritage Association |
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1993* |
Genre | : Flags |
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Author | : Celeste Ray |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2003-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817312277 |
How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American South W. J. Cash's 1941 observation that “there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them” is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its “lost cause” tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public rituals—parades, cook-offs, kinship homecomings, church assemblies, music spectacles, and material culture exhibitions—that affirm other identities. From the Appalachian uplands to the Mississippi Delta, from Kentucky bluegrass to Carolina piedmont, southerners celebrate in festivals that showcase their diverse cultural backgrounds and their mythic beliefs about themselves. The ten essays of this cohesive, interdisciplinary collection present event-centered research from various fields of study—anthropology, geography, history, and literature—to establish a rich, complex picture of the stereotypically “Solid South.” Topics include the Mardi Gras Indian song cycle as a means of expressing African-American identity in New Orleans; powwow performances and Native American traditions in southeast North Carolina; religious healings in southern Appalachian communities; Mexican Independence Day festivals in central Florida; and, in eastern Tennessee, bonding ceremonies of melungeons who share Indian, Scots Irish, Mediterranean, and African ancestry. Seen together, these public heritage displays reveal a rich “creole” of cultures that have always been a part of southern life and that continue to affirm a flourishing regionalism. This book will be valuable to students and scholars of cultural anthropology, American studies, and southern history; academic and public libraries; and general readers interested in the American South. It contributes a vibrant, colorful layer of understanding to the continuously emerging picture of complexity in this region historically depicted by simple stereotypes.