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The South of the Mind - American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980 (Hardcover)
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The South of the Mind - American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980 (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Ser.
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With the nation reeling from the cultural and political upheavals
of the 1960s era, imaginings of the white South as a place of
stability represented a bulwark against unsettling changes, from
suburban blandness and empty consumerism to race riots and
governmental deceit. A variety of individuals during and after the
civil rights era, including writers, journalists, filmmakers,
musicians, and politicians, imagined white southernness as a
tradition-loving, communal, authentic--and often, but not always,
rural or small-town-- abstraction that both represented a refuge
from modern ills and contained the tools for combating them. The
South of the Mind tells this story of how many Americans looked to
the nation's most maligned region to save them during the 1960s and
1970s. This interdisciplinary work uses imaginings of the South to
illuminate the recent American past. In it, Zachary J. Lechner
bridges the fields of southern studies, southern history, and post-
World War II American cultural and popular culture history in an
effort to discern how conceptions of a tradition-bound,
""timeless"" South shaped Americans' views of themselves and their
society and served as a fantasied refuge from the era's political
and cultural fragmentations, namely, the perceived problems
associated with ""rootlessness."" In its exploration of the source
of these tropes and their influence, The South of the Mind
demonstrates that we cannot hope to understand recent U.S. history
without exploring how people have conceived the South, as well as
what those conceptualizations have omitted.
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