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Away down South [electronic resource] : a history of Southern identity / James C. Cobb.

By: Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: x, 404 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Group identity -- Southern States -- History | Southern States -- Civilization | Southern States -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 975 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-389) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.