Title The southern way of life : meanings of culture and civilization in the American South / Charles Reagan Wilson

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (598 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I. SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION -- Chapter One. Southern Civilization: Imagining the Southern Way through Reconstruction -- Southern Civilization in the Colonial South -- Thomas Jefferson and Civilization -- Native Americans and Enslaved Africans -- Abolitionism -- A Southern Civil Religion -- A Distinctive and Distinguished Civilization -- Anxieties about Southern Civilization before the Civil War -- The Southern Creed -- Defense of Slavery -- Arguments about Civilization Confederate Civilization -- Reconstruction's Clarification of Civilization -- Chapter Two. Reimagining Southern Civilization: Adapting Civilization to New Regional, National, and International Contexts -- The Lost Cause -- New South -- Agrarian Movements -- Reforming the Countryside -- Workers in the New South -- Victorianism -- Racism -- Segregated Society -- Lynchings -- Sectional Reconciliation -- Problem South -- Folkloric Primitivism -- Critical Thinking -- "Negro Civilization" -- Crummell and Uplift -- Atlanta Compromise -- Washington's Materialistic Civilization Du Bois's Southern Veil and Western Civilization -- Du Bois's Spiritual Civilization -- African Americans Look North and to Africa -- Progressive Era Triumphalism -- Evangelical Missions -- Woodrow Wilson -- PART II. SOUTHERN WAY OF LIFE -- Chapter Three. Agrarian Way: Regional Consciousness and Southern Tradition -- Crisis in Civilization -- The Agrarians from the Lost Cause to the Modern Way -- Planning the Manifesto -- I'll Take My Stand -- Debating I'll Take My Stand -- The Thirties -- Race and Agrarianism -- Moral and Spiritual Meanings Chapter Four. Searching for the Southern Way in a Time of Transition: Culture, Civilization, and Way of Life in the Interwar Years -- Culture and Way of Life -- A Business Way -- Lost Cause and Tourism -- Folklore and Popular Culture -- Howard Odum and Southern Sociology -- Critical Perspectives -- Poor Whites -- Interracial Southern Way -- Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin -- Herman Clarence Nixon -- Charles Johnson -- Chapter Five. The Rising Racial Way: The Evolving Southern Racial Context in the Interwar Years -- Segregation and Racial Etiquette -- Social Scientists -- William Alexander Percy Ku Klux Klan and Fundamentalism -- Respectable White Supremacy -- Race-Baiting Politicians -- Moderate Segregationists -- African Americans and the Southern Way -- African American Folk Culture -- Richard Wright -- Zora Neale Hurston -- World War II -- Fascism and W. J. Cash -- World War II and Race Relations -- What the Negro Wants -- Interracial Movement -- American Way of Life -- An American Dilemma -- Racism and Social Class Issues -- Postwar Context -- Chapter Six. Revolutions and Counterrevolutions: Challenging and Defending the Southern Way in the Civil Rights Era -- Post-World War II Summary "Since the eighteenth century, a vast range of thinkers, artists, writers, and critics have wrestled with the notion that something distinct characterizes life in the American South. But in this sweeping new intellectual and cultural history, Charles Reagan Wilson reveals that there has never been a singular understanding of this 'southern way of life.' Considering nearly three centuries of regional expression in history, literature, music, recreation, religion, and more, produced by those inside and outside the region, Wilson argues that the consciousness associated with the American South is best understood by examining three related yet discrete ideas that have evolved over time: southern civilization, the southern way of life, and southern living. The story he tells is not of an essential South but of one marked by contestations, contingencies, and change"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Manners and customs Civilization History of the Americas. History. SUBJECT Southern States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125633 Southern States -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125635 Subject Southern States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469665009 146966500X 9781469664996 1469664992

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