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The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Paperback)
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The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Paperback)
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More than one-third of the population of the United States now
lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and
the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet
historians and journalists continue to disagree over whether the
modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the
rest of the nation. Has the time come to declare the end of
southern history? And how do the stories of American history change
if the South is no longer seen as a region apart--as the
conservative counterpoint to a liberal national ideal?
The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism challenges the idea of southern
distinctiveness in order to offer a new way of thinking about
modern American history. For too long, the belief in an exceptional
South has encouraged distortions and generalizations about the
nation's otherwise liberal traditions, especially by
compartmentalizing themes of racism, segregation, and political
conservatism in one section of the country. This volume dismantles
popular binaries--of de facto versus de jure segregation, red state
conservatism versus blue state liberalism, the "South" versus the
"North"--to rewrite the history of region and nation alike.
Matthew Lassiter and Joseph Crespino present thirteen
essays--framed by their provocative introduction--that reinterpret
major topics such as the civil rights movement in the South and the
North, the relationship between conservative backlash and liberal
reform throughout the country, the rise of the Religious Right as a
national phenomenon, the emergence of the metropolitan Sunbelt, and
increasing suburban diversity in a multiracial New South. By
writing American history across regional borders, this volume
spends as much time outside as inside the traditional boundaries of
the South, moving from Mississippi to New York City, from Southern
California to South Carolina, from Mexico to Atlanta, from
Hollywood to the Newport Folk Festival, and from the Pentagon to
the Attica prison rebellion.
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