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Minding the South [electronic resource] / John Shelton Reed.

By: Reed, John Shelton.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003Description: xiii, 291 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Southern States -- Civilization -- 20th century | Southern States -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 975/.043 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The three Souths --The journalistic eye -- The mind of the South and Southern distinctiveness -- The times looks at Dixie -- Among the believers the secret history of civil rights -- The smoke never clears -- One tough lady -- A South that never was -- History and historians -- American weed -- Slaves View slavery -- Slipshod totalitarianism Southern intellect -- Southern studies abroad -- Friends and masters -- C. Vann Woodward -- Eugene D. Genovese -- M.E. Bradford -- What they say about Dixie -- Of Collard greens and kings -- Red and yellow, black, and white -- Telling about the South -- The imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady propagandist of the Old South -- The man from New Orleans -- The world's best-selling novelist -- Mover and shaker -- Hardy perennial -- The southern Elvis -- The end of Elvis -- Southern culture, High and low -- Southern laughter -- A cokelorist at work -- The national magazine of the South -- Carolina couch crime -- Southern lit (and one movie) -- Taking a stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood chain gangs -- Reflections -- The banner that Won't stay furled -- The most Southern state? -- Brits and grits -- Missing -- He's baaack -- If at first you don't secede ... -- Party down -- Our kind of Yankee -- But let's talk about me -- Mixing in the mountains -- Among the Baptists -- Choosing the South.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-289).

The three Souths --The journalistic eye -- The mind of the South and Southern distinctiveness -- The times looks at Dixie -- Among the believers the secret history of civil rights -- The smoke never clears -- One tough lady -- A South that never was -- History and historians -- American weed -- Slaves View slavery -- Slipshod totalitarianism Southern intellect -- Southern studies abroad -- Friends and masters -- C. Vann Woodward -- Eugene D. Genovese -- M.E. Bradford -- What they say about Dixie -- Of Collard greens and kings -- Red and yellow, black, and white -- Telling about the South -- The imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady propagandist of the Old South -- The man from New Orleans -- The world's best-selling novelist -- Mover and shaker -- Hardy perennial -- The southern Elvis -- The end of Elvis -- Southern culture, High and low -- Southern laughter -- A cokelorist at work -- The national magazine of the South -- Carolina couch crime -- Southern lit (and one movie) -- Taking a stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood chain gangs -- Reflections -- The banner that Won't stay furled -- The most Southern state? -- Brits and grits -- Missing -- He's baaack -- If at first you don't secede ... -- Party down -- Our kind of Yankee -- But let's talk about me -- Mixing in the mountains -- Among the Baptists -- Choosing the South.

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