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The American South: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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The American South: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history,
and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty
first century. The American South: A Very Short Introduction
explores the history of the South as a cultural crossroads, a
meeting place between western Europe and West Africa. The South's
beginnings illuminate the expansion of Europe into the New World,
creating a colonial slave society that distinguished it from other
parts of the United States but fostered commonalities with other
colonial societies. The Civil War and civil rights movement
transformed the South in differing ways and remain a part of a
vibrant and contested public memory. More recently, the South's
pronounced traditionalism in customs and values was in tension with
the forces of modernization that slowly forced change in the
twentieth century. Southerners' creative responses to these
experiences have made the American South well known around the
world in literature, film, music, and cuisine. Charles Reagan
Wilson argues for the significance of creativity in the South,
emerging from the diversity of peoples, cultures, and experiences
that the regional context fostered. The South has now become the
new center of immigration, adding to the complexity of the region's
cultural, social, economic, and political life. In this book, the
burdens and tragedies of southern history are placed beside the
creative achievements that have come out of the region, producing a
portrait of a complex American place.
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