The myth of southern exceptionalism / edited by Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph Crespino.

Contents De jure/de facto segregation: the long shadow of a national myth / Matthew D. Lassiter -- Hidden in plain sight: the civil rights movement outside the South / Jeanne Theoharis -- Blinded by a "barbaric" South: prison horrors, inmate abuse, and the ironic history of American penal reform / Heather Ann Thompson -- Mississippi as metaphor: civil rights, the South, and the nation in the historical imagination / Joseph Crespino -- Black as folk: the southern civil rights movement and the folk music revival / Grace Elizabeth Hale -- Red necks, white sheets, and blue states: the persistence of regionalism in the politics of Hollywood / Allison Graham -- A nation in motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the nationalization of the metropolitan South, 1941-1953 / James T. Sparrow -- The Cold War at the grassroots: militarization and modernization in South Carolina / Kari Frederickson -- African-American suburbanization and regionalism in the modern South / Andrew Wiese -- Latin American immigration and the new multiethnic South / Mary E. Odem -- Into the political thicket: reapportionment and the rise of suburban power / Douglas Smith -- Beyond the Southern Cross: the national origins of the Religious Right / Kevin M. Kruse -- Neo-Confederacy versus the New Deal: the regional utopia of the modern American Right / Nancy MacLean.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009010766
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