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- catalog abstract "In this volume, twelve authors take a challenging new look at the South. Departing from the issue that has lately preoccupied observers of the South - the region's waning cultural distinctiveness - the contributors instead look at the dynamics of the region's long-troubled relationship with the rest of the nation. What they discover allows us all to view the current state and future course of the South, as well as its link to the broader culture and polity, in a new light. To envision the concept of the "Problem South," and what it means to those within and without the region, six historians have joined together with a sociologist, an economist, two literary scholars, a legal scholar, and a journalist. Their essays, which range in subject from the South's climate to its religious fundamentalism to its great outpouring of fiction and autobiography, are the products of strong and independent minds that cut across disciplines, disagree among themselves, blend contemporary and historical insights, and confront conventional wisdom and expedient generalities. Although consensus among the contributors was never the goal of this collection, some common themes do suggest themselves. Above all, there is not only a South defined by its geography, history, and society, but also a mythic and metaphoric South - one continually refashioned by national/regional discourse, trends and events. In addition, the South has long been a mirror in which America has viewed itself. The nation has sought, time and again, to change the region, but it has also used the South to expose and modify darker impulses of American culture.".
- catalog contributor b8372458.
- catalog contributor b8372459.
- catalog coverage "Southern States Civilization.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States History.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Race relations.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "In this volume, twelve authors take a challenging new look at the South. Departing from the issue that has lately preoccupied observers of the South - the region's waning cultural distinctiveness - the contributors instead look at the dynamics of the region's long-troubled relationship with the rest of the nation. What they discover allows us all to view the current state and future course of the South, as well as its link to the broader culture and polity, in a new light. To envision the concept of the "Problem South," and what it means to those within and without the region, six historians have joined together with a sociologist, an economist, two literary scholars, a legal scholar, and a journalist. Their essays, which range in subject from the South's climate to its religious fundamentalism to its great outpouring of fiction and autobiography, are the products of strong and independent minds that cut across disciplines, disagree among themselves, blend contemporary and historical insights, and confront conventional wisdom and expedient generalities. Although consensus among the contributors was never the goal of this collection, some common themes do suggest themselves. Above all, there is not only a South defined by its geography, history, and society, but also a mythic and metaphoric South - one continually refashioned by national/regional discourse, trends and events. In addition, the South has long been a mirror in which America has viewed itself. The nation has sought, time and again, to change the region, but it has also used the South to expose and modify darker impulses of American culture.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Why was the South a problem to America? / Larry J. Griffin -- How American is the American South? / David L. Carlton -- Climate and southern pessimism : the natural history of an idea, 1500-1800 / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Slavery as an American problem / James Oakes -- Slavery, secession, and reconstruction as American problems? Don H. Doyle -- The south, the Supreme Court, and race relations, 1890-1965 / James W. Ely Jr. -- Since 1965 : the South and civil rights / Hugh Davis Graham -- The South as an economic problem : fact or fiction? / Robert A. Margo -- Blues for Atticus Finch : Scottsboro, Brown, and Harper Lee / Eric J. Sundquist -- Black southerners, shared experience, and place : a reflection / Jimmie Lewis Franklin -- Race and southern literature : "The problem" in the work of Louis D. Rubin Jr. / Michael Kreyling -- The end of the South as an American problem / John Egerton.".
- catalog extent "ix, 310 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0820317292 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0820317527 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Civilization.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States History.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog subject "975 20".
- catalog subject "F209.5 .S64 1995".
- catalog subject "Regionalism Southern States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Why was the South a problem to America? / Larry J. Griffin -- How American is the American South? / David L. Carlton -- Climate and southern pessimism : the natural history of an idea, 1500-1800 / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Slavery as an American problem / James Oakes -- Slavery, secession, and reconstruction as American problems? Don H. Doyle -- The south, the Supreme Court, and race relations, 1890-1965 / James W. Ely Jr. -- Since 1965 : the South and civil rights / Hugh Davis Graham -- The South as an economic problem : fact or fiction? / Robert A. Margo -- Blues for Atticus Finch : Scottsboro, Brown, and Harper Lee / Eric J. Sundquist -- Black southerners, shared experience, and place : a reflection / Jimmie Lewis Franklin -- Race and southern literature : "The problem" in the work of Louis D. Rubin Jr. / Michael Kreyling -- The end of the South as an American problem / John Egerton.".
- catalog title "The South as an American problem / edited by Larry J. Griffin and Don H. Doyle.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".