The myth of southern exceptionalism / edited by Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph Crespino.
| Other author | Lassiter, Matthew D., 1970- |
| Other author | Crespino, Joseph. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Description | xi, 348 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009010766 |
| ISBN | 9780195384741 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0195384741 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195384758 (pbk : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 019538475X (pbk : acid-free paper) |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | F208.2 .M98 2010 | Due 12/07/2026 | Want This? |
| Joyner | General Stacks | F208.2 .M98 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |