Contemporary southern identity
Subtitle: community through controversy
By: Rebecca Bridges Watts
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781934110096
Subjects: Group identity -- Southern States; Southern States -- Civilization -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-194) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: looking toward a new rhetoric of southern identity; title: Uniforms, walls, and doors: social mystery and gender integration at the Virginia Military Institute; title: When Richmond gained perspective by incongruity: Old South tradition and New South change in the confederate capitol; title: Stories of the war: the confederate flag in South Carolina; title: Senator Trent Lott: southern sinner, scapegoat, and sacrifice; title: Conclusion: dialectical rhetoric as the new rhetoric of southern identity; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index