Standing at the crossroads : Southern life in the twentieth century
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Standing at the crossroads : Southern life in the twentieth century
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1986
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-252) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This engagingly-written survey examines the changes and constants of Southern culture. Always with a keen eye and sharp wit, Daniel stresses the diversity of Southern life, which includes not only regional variations but also divisions between black and white, male and female, rural and urban. From "separate but equal" to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s and its legacy, Standing at the Crossroads explores the extraordinary changes that transformed the South. Daniel takes the reader through a variety of topics that relate directly to the Southern experience: rural life, violence, music, literature, civil rights, unionism, urbanization, xenophobia, migration, religion, cockfighting, and stock car racing.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Southern Cultures in Conflict
Chapter 2. Politics and Urban Growth
Chapter 3. The Grid of Violence
Chapter 4. Tolling of a Bell
Chapter 5. The Coat of Many Colors
Chapter 6. The Conservative Revolution
Chapter 7. The Two-Front War
Chapter 8. The Movement for Civil Rights
Chapter 9. Domesticated Violence
Chapter 10. A Second Chance at Reconstruction
Chapter 11. Consolidating the Revolution
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Index
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