Title: Away down South : a history of Southern identity /
Authors: Cobb, James C. 1947-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Group identity Southern States History.; Southern States Civilization.; Southern States Race relations.
Abstract: "From the seventeenth-century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen - and then came to see itself - as a region apart from the rest of America."--Jacket.
Contents: Cavalier and Yankee : the origins of Southern "otherness" -- The South becomes a cause -- The New South and the old cause -- The Southern Renaissance and the revolt against the New South creed -- Southern writers and "the impossible load of the past" -- The mind of the South -- The South of guilt and shame -- No North, no South? the crisis of Southern white identity -- "Successful, optimistic, prosperous, and bland" : telling about the No South -- Blackness and Southernness : African Americans look south toward home -- Divided by a common past : history and identity in the contemporary South -- The South and the politics of identity.