Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present

by Holloway, Pippa

• ISBN13: 9780820330525
• ISBN10: 0820330523
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-25
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

Other Souths collects fifteen innovative essays that place issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality at the center of the narrative of southern history. Using a range of methodologies and approaches, contributing historians provide a fresh perspective to key events and move long-overlooked episodes into prominence. Within a chronological and event-driven framework the book covers well-recognized topics in American history: wars, reform efforts, social movements, and political milestones. Cultural topics are considered as well, including the development of consumer capitalism, the history of rock and roll, and the history of sport. The focus and organization of the essays underscore the value of southern history to the larger national narrative. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Pippa Holloway is an associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
"Sweet Dreams of Freedom": Freedwomen's Reconstruction of Life and Labor in Lowcountry South Carolina	p. 9
Who Was John Henry? Railroad Construction, Southern Folklore, and the Birth of Rock and Roll	p. 38
Gender, Race, and Itinerant Commerce in the Rural New South	p. 67
Becoming "White": Race, Religion, and the Foundations of Syrian/Lebanese Ethnicity in the United States	p. 89
The Politics of Southern Draft Resistance, 1917-1918: Class, Race, and Conscription in the Rural South	p. 117
"Fighting Whiskey and Immorality" at Auburn: The Politics of Southern Football, 1919-1927	p. 148
The Campaign for Racial Purity and the Erosion of Paternalism in Virginia, 1922-1930: "Nominally White, Biologically Mixed, and Legally Negro"	p. 167
Spirited Youth or Fiends Incarnate: The Samarcand Arson Case and Female Adolescence in the American South	p. 208
Winning the Peace: Georgia Veterans and the Struggle to Define the Political Legacy of World War II	p. 235
"Nothing Else Matters But Sex": Cold War Narratives of Deviance and the Search for Lesbian Teachers in Florida, 1959-1963	p. 278
"It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped": Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle	p. 298
"An Oasis of Order": The Citadel, the 1960s, and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement	p. 328
The Fickle Finger of Phosphate: Central Florida Air Pollution and the Failure of Environmental Policy, 1957-1970	p. 344
The Politics of Race and Public Space: Desegregation, Privatization, and the Tax Revolt in Atlanta	p. 381
Globalization, Latinization, and the Nuevo New South	p. 408
Credits	p. 443
Contributors	p. 445
Index	p. 447
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