Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness
(Part of the New Directions in Southern Studies Series)
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By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century moments in which the South was exposed to intense public criticism, identifying in white southerners' responses a pattern of defensiveness that shaped...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469611643
ISBN13:9781469611648
Release Date:April 2014
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:324 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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