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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783052603321
• Autore: Reed John Shelton
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003
• ISBN: 0-8262-6453-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 975/.043
• Soggetti: Southern States Civilization 20th century; Southern States Social life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-289).
• Nota di contenuto: 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.