The indicted South : public criticism, southern inferiority, and the politics of whiteness / Angie Maxwell.
2014
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Uniform Title
Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
The indicted South : public criticism, southern inferiority, and the politics of whiteness / Angie Maxwell.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014.
Description
1 online resource (324 pages).
Series
New directions in southern studies.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : the anatomy of inferiority
The triptych of the twenties : Bryan, Darrow, and Mencken and what they meant to the white South
Tennessee vs. civilization : Scopes takes on a southern accent
Reactionary fundamentalism : the founding of William Jennings Bryan College
Fugitives captured : the wasteland of southern identity
A knock at midnight : the Agrarian plea for the South
The not so new criticism : reconfigured, yet unregenerate
Black, white, gray, and brown : the Old Dominion confronts integration
Byrd watching : the South on the national stage
Excursion into fantasy : the doctrine of interposition
Epilogue : the politics of inferiority : conservatism, creationism, and the culture wars.
The triptych of the twenties : Bryan, Darrow, and Mencken and what they meant to the white South
Tennessee vs. civilization : Scopes takes on a southern accent
Reactionary fundamentalism : the founding of William Jennings Bryan College
Fugitives captured : the wasteland of southern identity
A knock at midnight : the Agrarian plea for the South
The not so new criticism : reconfigured, yet unregenerate
Black, white, gray, and brown : the Old Dominion confronts integration
Byrd watching : the South on the national stage
Excursion into fantasy : the doctrine of interposition
Epilogue : the politics of inferiority : conservatism, creationism, and the culture wars.
Summary
"By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century moments in which the South was exposed to intense public criticism, identifying in white southerners' responses a pattern of defensiveness that shaped the region's political and cultural conservatism. Maxwell exposes the way the perception of regional inferiority confronted all types of southerners, focusing on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and the birth of the anti-evolution movement; the publication of I'll Take My Stand and the turn to New Criticism by the Southern Agrarians; and Virginia's campaign of Massive Resistance and Interposition in response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Tracing the effects of media scrutiny and the ridicule that characterized national discourse in each of these cases, Maxwell reveals the reactionary responses that linked modern southern whiteness with anti-elitism, states' rights, fundamentalism, and majoritarianism."-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Maxwell, Angie. Indicted South : public criticism, southern inferiority, and the politics of whiteness. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2014] New directions in southern studies
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Language
English
ISBN
9781469614519 e-book
9781469611648 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9781469611648 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
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