This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Cultureaddresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.

General Introduction	p. xi
Introduction	p. xvii
Myth, Manners, and Memory	p. 1
African Influences	p. 9
Automobile	p. 11
Beauty, Cult of	p. 17
Benighted South	p. 27
Body	p. 30
Clocks and Time	p. 34
Community	p. 37
Confederate Monuments	p. 43
Debutantes	p. 48
Etiquette of Race Relations in the Jim Crow South	p. 51
Family	p. 55
Fashion	p. 61
Fatherhood	p. 64
Fighting South	p. 68
Fraternal Groups	p. 70
Fraternal Orders, Black	p. 74
Garden Myth	p. 77
Gays	p. 79
Icons, Southern	p. 83
Ladies and Gentlemen	p. 85
Lynching	p. 89
Maiden Aunt	p. 93
Manners	p. 96
Memory	p. 104
Modernism	p. 107
Motherhood	p. 112
Museums	p. 119
Mythic South	p. 125
New South Myth	p. 132
Northern Mythmaking	p. 135
Plantation Myth	p. 139
Postmodernism	p. 143
Racial Attitudes	p. 146
Reconstruction Myth	p. 152
Regionalism	p. 155
Religion and Mythology	p. 158
Romanticism	p. 162
Sexuality	p. 164
Stereotypes	p. 170
Stoicism	p. 175
Tobacco	p. 180
Victorianism	p. 184
Visiting	p. 188
Agrarians, Vanderbilt	p. 193
Anglo-Saxon South	p. 194
Appalachian Myth	p. 196
Babylon, South's (New Orleans)	p. 198
Black Collectibles	p. 199
Black Confederates, Myth of	p. 201
Burma Shave Signs	p. 202
Carter Era	p. 203
Cash, W. J.	p. 205
Cavalier Myth	p. 206
Celtic South	p. 207
Chosen People Myth	p. 208
Christmas	p. 210
"City Too Busy to Hate" (Atlanta)	p. 211
Civil War Reenactments	p. 215
Confederate Memorial Day	p. 216
"Crackers"	p. 218
Elderly	p. 219
Evangeline Myth	p. 221
Family Reunions	p. 222
Farm Security Administration Photography	p. 223
Feuds and Feuding	p. 225
Flag, Confederate	p. 228
Gardner, Dave	p. 230
Good Old Boys and Girls	p. 230
Graceland	p. 231
Holidays	p. 233
Hospitality	p. 234
Jim Crow	p. 237
Juneteenth	p. 239
Lost Cause Myth	p. 240
L. Q. C. Lamar Society	p. 242
"Mammy"	p. 243
Mencken's South	p. 244
Mitchell, Margaret	p. 245
"Moonlight-and-Magnolias" Myth	p. 246
Nationalism, Southern	p. 247
Patriotic Societies	p. 248
Pickup Truck	p. 251
Pilgrimage	p. 253
Place, Sense of	p. 253
Poor Whites	p. 255
Reb, Johnny	p. 257
Rednecks	p. 259
Sambo	p. 260
"See Rock City"	p. 261
Selma March	p. 263
Stone Mountain	p. 264
Trucking	p. 266
Uncle Tom's Cabin	p. 267
Yerby, Frank	p. 269
Yoknapatawpha County	p. 270
Index of Contributors	p. 273
Index	p. 275
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