Record details

• ISBN: 9780807830291
• ISBN: 0807830291
• ISBN: 9780807856925
• ISBN: 9780807830291
• ISBN: 0807856924
• ISBN: 0807830291
• ISBN: 0807856924
• Physical Description: xviii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
• Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Myth, Manners, and Memory 1 -- African Influences 9 -- Automobile 11 -- Beauty, Cult of 17 -- Benighted South 27 -- Body 30 -- Clocks and Time 34 -- Community 37 -- Confederate Monuments 43 -- Debutantes 48 -- Etiquette of Race Relations in the Jim Crow South 51 -- Family 55 -- Fashion 61 -- Fatherhood 64 -- Fighting South 68 -- Fraternal Groups 70 -- Fraternal Orders, Black 74 -- Garden Myth 77 -- Gays 79 -- Icons, Southern 83 -- Ladies and Gentlemen 85 -- Lynching 89 -- Maiden Aunt 93 -- Manners 96 -- Memory 104 -- Modernism 107 -- Motherhood 112 -- Museums 119 -- Mythic South 125 -- New South Myth 132 -- Northern Mythmaking 135 -- Plantation Myth 139 -- Postmodernism 143 -- Racial Attitudes 146 -- Reconstruction Myth 152 -- Regionalism 155 -- Religion and Mythology 158 -- Romanticism 162 -- Sexuality 164 -- Stereotypes 170 -- Stoicism 175 -- Tobacco 180 -- Victorianism 184 -- Visiting 188 -- Agrarians, Vanderbilt 193 -- Anglo-Saxon South 194 -- Appalachian Myth 196 -- Babylon, South's (New Orleans) 198 -- Black Collectibles 199 -- Black Confederates, Myth of 201 -- Burma Shave Signs 202 -- Carter Era 203 -- Cash, W. J. 205 -- Cavalier Myth 206 -- Celtic South 207 -- Chosen People Myth 208 -- Christmas 210 -- "City Too Busy to Hate" (Atlanta) 211 -- Civil War Reenactments 215 -- Confederate Memorial Day 216 -- "Crackers" 218 -- Elderly 219 -- Evangeline Myth 221 -- Family Reunions 222 -- Farm Security Administration Photography 223 -- Feuds and Feuding 225 -- Flag, Confederate 228 -- Gardner, Dave 230 -- Good Old Boys and Girls 230 -- Graceland 231 -- Holidays 233 -- Hospitality 234 -- Jim Crow 237 -- Juneteenth 239 -- Lost Cause Myth 240 -- L. Q. C. Lamar Society 242 -- "Mammy" 243 -- Mencken's South 244 -- Mitchell, Margaret 245 -- "Moonlight-and-Magnolias" Myth 246 -- Nationalism, Southern 247 -- Patriotic Societies 248 -- Pickup Truck 251 -- Pilgrimage 253 -- Place, Sense of 253 -- Poor Whites 255 -- Reb, Johnny 257 -- Rednecks 259 -- Sambo 260 -- "See Rock City" 261 -- Selma March 263 -- Stone Mountain 264 -- Trucking 266 -- Uncle Tom's Cabin 267 -- Yerby, Frank 269 -- Yoknapatawpha County 270.

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Genre:

Encyclopedias.

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