The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19978809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew D Lassiter, Joseph Crespino |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 348 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The myth of southern exceptionalism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384741.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W609212708 |
| Open Library | OL23186682M |
| ISBN | 9780195384741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
Introduction: The End of Southern History PART ONE: THE NORTHERN MYSTIQUE 1. De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth 2. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Civil Rights Movement outside the South 3. Blinded by a Barbaric South: Prison Horrors, Inmate Abuse, and the Ironic History of American Penal Reform PART TWO: IMAGINING THE SOUTH 4. Mississippi as Metaphor: Civil Rights, the South, and the Nation in the Historical Imagination 5. Black as Folk: The Southern Civil Rights Movement and the Folk Music Revival 6. Red Necks, White Sheets, and Blue States: The Persistence of Regionalism in the Politics of Hollywood PART THREE: BORDER CROSSINGS 7. A Nation in Motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the Nationalization of the Metropolitan South, 1941-1953 8. The Cold War at the Grassroots: Militarization and Modernization in South Carolina 9. African-American Suburbanization and Regionalism in the Modern South 10. Latin American Immigration and the New Multiethnic South PART FOUR: POLITICAL REALIGNMENT 11. Into the Political Thicket: Reapportionment and the Rise of Suburban Power 12. Beyond the Southern Cross: The National Origins of the Religious Right 13. Neo-Confederacy against the New Deal: The Regional Utopia of the Modern American Right
Art · Exceptionalism · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Cuban History and Society · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · African americans · Bürgerrecht · Group identity · Historiography · History · race relations · Rassenbeziehung · Regionalism · Regionalismus · Segregation · Segregation (Soziologie) · Social conditions · Southern states · Soziale Bewegung · Soziale Identität · Südstaaten · united states
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| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |