| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 231 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 & rdquo; as an ideal during the volatile years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. Trent Watts argues that despite real and signifcant divisions within the South along lines of religion, class, and ethnicity, white southerners & mdash;especially in moments of perceived danger & mdash;asserted that t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-220) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922. Marse Chan
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Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946. Leopard's spots
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Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946. Leopard's spots
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Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922. Marse Chan
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| Subject |
White people -- Race identity -- Southern States -- History
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Group identity -- Southern States -- History
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Race awareness -- Southern States -- History
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White people in literature.
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American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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HISTORY -- General.
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American fiction
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Civilization
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Group identity
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Race awareness
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Social conditions
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White people in literature
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White people -- Race identity
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125635
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004000
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010016563 |
| ISBN |
9781572337435 |
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1572337435 |
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