One homogeneous people : narratives of white southern identity, 1890-1920

One homogeneous people : narratives of white southern identity, 1890-1920 / Trent Watts.

Southerners have a reputation as storytellers, as a people fond of telling about family, community, and the southern way of life. A compelling book about some of those stories and their consequences, One Homogeneous People examines the forging and the embracing of southern & ldquo;pan-whiteness...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Trent, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Page, Thomas Nelson, > 1853-1922. > Marse Chan.
Dixon, Thomas, > Jr., > 1864-1946. > Leopard's spots.
Dixon, Thomas, > 1864-1946. > Leopard's spots.
1865-1945
White people > Race identity > Southern States > History.
Group identity > Southern States > History.
Race awareness > Southern States > History.
White people in literature.
American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > General.
American fiction
Civilization
Group identity
Race awareness
Social conditions
White people in literature
White people > Race identity
Southern States > Civilization.
Southern States > Social conditions > 1865-1945.
Southern States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The road to a closed society : Mississippi politics and the language of white Southern identity
  • Manhood, family, and white identity in Thomas Nelson Page's "Marse Chan" and Thomas W. Dixon's The leopard's spots
  • "The South is a single, homogeneous people" : canonizing Southern history and literature
  • "Mississippi's giant house party" : whiteness and community at the Neshoba County Fair.

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