The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness (New Directions in Southern Studies)
"Maxwell focuses on three significant episodes in the history of the 20th century South: the Scopes trial, the Fugitives' defense of Southern agrarianism, and the construction of the ideology of massive resistance. In each case, she has done an excellent job of contextualizing events and conveying a sense of the atmosphere in which they unfolded. Maxwell's book provides a nuanced understanding of the mindset behind southern whites' defiance of external pressures for changes in southern society, one that goes beyond the reliance on rather simplistic devices such as a 'siege mentality' or the mere persistence of sectional antagonism. An important and significant book."--James C. Cobb, author of "Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South"