The South as an American ProblemLarry J. Griffin, Don Harrison Doyle University of Georgia Press, 1995 - 310 páginas How do southerners feel about the ways in which the rest of the country regards them? In this volume, twelve observers of the modern South discuss its persistent image as a people and place at odds with mainstream American ideals and values. Ranging from the South's climate to its religious fundamentalism to its great outpouring of fiction and autobiography, the contributors show how and why our perceptions of the region have been continually refashioned by national/southern tensions, trends, and events. At the same time, they show that although the nation has sought, time and again, to change the region, America also has used the South to expose and modify some of its own darker impulses. As editors Larry J. Griffin and Don H. Doyle point out, no single approach could clarify the complexities underlying this persistent notion of a "Problem South." Representing a diversity of backgrounds and interests, the writings in this volume are the products of strong and independent minds that cut across disciplines, disagree among themselves, blend contemporary and historical insights, and confront conventional wisdom and expedient generalities. Filled with fresh insights into the dynamics of the region's long-troubled relationship with the rest of the nation, this volume allows us all to view the current state and future course of the South, as well as its link to the broader culture and polity, in a new light. |
Contenido
Rubin American South | 4 |
Why Was the South a Problem to America? Larry J Griffin | 10 |
Rubin American South | 12 |
A Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South Baton Rouge 1989 17 ff | 26 |
How American Is the American South? David L Carlton | 33 |
The Natural History | 57 |
Slavery as an American Problem James Oakes | 83 |
Slavery Secession and Reconstruction as American Problems | 102 |
The South and Civil Rights Hugh Davis Graham | 145 |
Fact or Fiction? | 164 |
Scottsboro Brown and Harper | 181 |
The Problem in the Work | 234 |
The End of the South as an American Problem John Egerton | 259 |
Contributors | 275 |
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