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Title Southern cultures : the fifteenth anniversary reader / edited by Harry L. Watson and Larry J. Griffin ; with Lisa Eveleigh [and others]
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 507 pages) : illustrations
Series Caravan Book
Caravan Book
Contents Front Porch; A Moveable Mason-Dixon Line: Where is the South? Which South? Where isn't the South?; Intractable Identity: In an ever-evolving region, potent markers of southern pride and identification remain; The New Days of Yore: Country music, the blues, Atticus Finch, and southern childhoods aren't what they used to be -- and perhaps never really were; Colliding Cultures: Peoples and powers intersect, forging and reshaping the South and its southerners; Regional Stereotypes: Kudzu, hogs, rednecks, feuding, and rasslin' have real stories behind them
Summary Intentionally plural, Southern Cultures, the journal of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was founded in 1993 to present all sides of the American South, from sorority sisters to Pocahontas, from kudzu to the blues. This volume collects 27 essays from the journal's first 15 years, bringing together some of the most memorable and engaging essays as well as some of those most requested for use in courses. Contributors include C. Vann Woodward, Drew Gilpin Faust, Charles Reagan Wilson, Catherine Bishir, John Shelton Reed, and Tim T
Notes "A Caravan book"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Civilization
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Southern States -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125635
Southern States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125663
Subject Southern States
Form Electronic book
Author Watson, Harry L.
Griffin, Larry J.
Eveleigh, Lisa.
ISBN 9780807886465
0807886467
9781469606231
1469606232
OTHER TI Southern cultures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011066355