The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism dismantles clichés about regional distinctiveness and rewrites modern American history through a national focus on topics such as the civil rights movement, conservative backlash and liberal reform, the rise of the Religious Right, the emergence of the Sunbelt, and the increasing diversity of the suburbs.
The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism dismantles clichés about regional distinctiveness and rewrites modern American history through a national focus on topics such as the civil rights movement, conservative backlash and liberal reform, the rise of the Religious Right, the emergence of the Sunbelt, and the increasing diversity of the suburbs.
Matthew D. Lassiter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and author of The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton University Press, 2006). Joseph Crespino is Associate Professor of History at Emory University, and author of Author in Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2007).
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* Introduction: The End of Southern History * Part One: The Northern Mystique * 1: Matthew D. Lassiter: De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth * 2: Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College, CUNY: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Civil Rights Movement outside the South * 3: Heather Ann Thompson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Blinded by a "Barbaric" South: Prison Horrors, Inmate Abuse, and the Ironic History of American Penal Reform * Part Two: Imagining the South * 4: Joseph Crespino: Mississippi as Metaphor: Civil Rights, the South, and the Nation in the Historical Imagination * 5: Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia: Black as Folk: The Southern Civil Rights Movement and the Folk Music Revival * 6: Allison Graham, University of Memphis: Red Necks, White Sheets, and Blue States: The Persistence of Regionalism in the Politics of Hollywood * Part Three: Border Crossings * 7: James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago: A Nation in Motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the Nationalization of the Metropolitan South, 1941-1953 * 8: Kari Frederickson, University of Alabama: The Cold War at the Grassroots: Militarization and Modernization in South Carolina * 9: Andrew Wiese, San Diego State University: African-American Suburbanization and Regionalism in the Modern South * 10: Mary E. Odem, Emory University: Latin American Immigration and the New Multiethnic South * Part Four: Political Realignment * 11: Douglas Smith, Occidental College: Into the Political Thicket: Reapportionment and the Rise of Suburban Power * 12: Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University: Beyond the Southern Cross: The National Origins of the Religious Right * 13: Nancy MacLean, Northwestern University: Neo-Confederacy against the New Deal: The Regional Utopia of the Modern American Right
* Introduction: The End of Southern History * Part One: The Northern Mystique * 1: Matthew D. Lassiter: De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth * 2: Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College, CUNY: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Civil Rights Movement outside the South * 3: Heather Ann Thompson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Blinded by a "Barbaric" South: Prison Horrors, Inmate Abuse, and the Ironic History of American Penal Reform * Part Two: Imagining the South * 4: Joseph Crespino: Mississippi as Metaphor: Civil Rights, the South, and the Nation in the Historical Imagination * 5: Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia: Black as Folk: The Southern Civil Rights Movement and the Folk Music Revival * 6: Allison Graham, University of Memphis: Red Necks, White Sheets, and Blue States: The Persistence of Regionalism in the Politics of Hollywood * Part Three: Border Crossings * 7: James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago: A Nation in Motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the Nationalization of the Metropolitan South, 1941-1953 * 8: Kari Frederickson, University of Alabama: The Cold War at the Grassroots: Militarization and Modernization in South Carolina * 9: Andrew Wiese, San Diego State University: African-American Suburbanization and Regionalism in the Modern South * 10: Mary E. Odem, Emory University: Latin American Immigration and the New Multiethnic South * Part Four: Political Realignment * 11: Douglas Smith, Occidental College: Into the Political Thicket: Reapportionment and the Rise of Suburban Power * 12: Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University: Beyond the Southern Cross: The National Origins of the Religious Right * 13: Nancy MacLean, Northwestern University: Neo-Confederacy against the New Deal: The Regional Utopia of the Modern American Right
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