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Charles Reagan Wilson
From the late nineteenth-century invention of southern tradition to early twenty-first-century folk artistic creativity, Wilson examines a wide range of cultural expression, including music, literature, folk art, media representations, and…
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Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture , this volume surveys history in the American South since the Paleoindian period…
Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity. Out of defeat emerged a civil religion that embodied the Lost Cause…
Part of the The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture , this volume addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. It…
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 24: Race
Science and medicine have been critical to southern history and the formation of southern culture. For three centuries, scientists in the South have documented the lush natural world around them…
Features entries on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling as well as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. This encyclopedia…
Discusses the contestable issue of where the cultural South is located, both on maps and in the minds of Americans. The author’s introductory essay explores the evolution of geographic patterns…
Explores language and dialect in the South, including English, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region’s immigrant communities. Topical entries in this work discuss…
Transcending familiar categories of black and white, this volume offers an understanding of southernness by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. Its essays examine the…
Surveying the vast diversity of foodways within the region and the collective qualities that make them distinctively southern, this volume marks the first encyclopedia of the food culture of the…
From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume…
Celebrates the South’s literary culture and recognizes the evolution of the southern literary canon. This volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism…
Portrays the legal and political character of the South. This title contains 16 essays and 43 topical entries focussing on legal aspects. It also includes 34 essays and, 70 shorter…
Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass…
Contains thematic articles that address subjects such as sexuality, respectability, and paternalism. This book also investigates the role of gender in broader subjects, including the civil rights movement, country music…
Features the dynamic and divergent heart of southern culture. This book addresses subjects such as car culture, funerals, hip-hop, and powwows. It focuses on more specific elements of folklife, such…
Offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that…
Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.
Offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their non-work hours, as…
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 23: Folk Art
Explores the most significant forms and many of the most harrowing incidences of violence that have plagued southern society over the past 300 years. Following a detailed overview by editor…
Offers an authoritative and interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to social class in the US South from the colonial era to the present. With introductory essays by J. Wayne Flynt…
Showing the undeniable truth that religion has been a powerful force in creating and maintaining southern regional distinctiveness, this volume of essays by leading scholars explores key aspects of southern…
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Since the eighteenth century, a range of thinkers, artists, writers, and critics have wrestled with the notion that something distinct characterizes life in the American South. But in this sweeping…
Over more than three decades of teaching at the University of Mississippi, Charles Reagan Wilson’s research and writing transformed southern studies in key ways. This volume pays tribute to and…
Pays tribute to and extends Wilson’s seminal work on southern religion and culture. Using certain episodes and moments in southern religious history, the essays examine the place and power of…
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Winner of the 2017 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Literature award for photography.
The rural American South has no grand cathedrals or other wonder-of-the-world monuments to religious belief. Nor has…
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Joe York
From hand-rendered folk signs to high-dollar church marquees, religious messages and imagery saturate the landscape of the American South. In With Signs Following, photographer and southern studies scholar Joe York…
This exciting study of two discrete yet kindred areas gives an affirmative answer. It comes to terms with what many have considered distinct yet fluctuating boundaries that separate and bond…
Larry E. McPherson
Captures the history and sense of place that make Memphis what it is often called today, the Crossroads of the Mid-South. Memphis brings to life the streets, buildings, and outskirts…
David Frost
A black moonshiner and civil rights activist’s autobiographical report on complex events in southern history neglected by white historians
Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr…
Charles Reagan Wilson (Professor Emeritus of History and Southern Studies, Professor Emeritus of History and Southern Studies, University of Mississippi)
This book provides a concise introduction to the history and culture of the American South. Charles Reagan Wilson explores Southern history alongside the creative achievements that have come out of…
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion…
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As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ‘tackies’ who tacked horses…
The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and…
An overview of public religion in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee.
