Title Your heritage will still remain : racial identity and Mississippi's Lost Cause / Michael J. Goleman

Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 177 pages) Contents The Southern Phalanx -- Those Who Should Be Brothers -- Like Patriots of Old -- Dying Dixie -- Thy Bright Sun Will Rise Again -- Long as Life Shall Last -- Conclusion: Thou Art Not Dead Summary "Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict and ending in the late nineteenth century. The social identity studied in this book focuses primarily on how Mississippians thought of their place within a national context, whether as Americans, Confederates, or both. Even in the midst of secession, white Mississippians held firm to their American identity and easily transformed it into a Confederate identity that still venerated their American heritage. After the war, black Mississippians tried to etch their place within the Union and as part of American society, yet continually faced white supremacist backlash. During the period in question, radical transformations within the state forced all Mississippians to embrace, deny, or rethink their standing within the Union. Tracing the evolution of Mississippians' social identity from 1850 through the end of the decade uncovers why white Mississippians felt the need to create the Lost Cause legend and shaped the way they constructed it. With personal letters, diaries and journals, newspaper editorials, traveler's accounts, memoirs, reminiscences, and personal histories as its sources, Your Heritage Will Still Remain offers insights into the creation of Mississippi's Lost Cause and black social identity and how those cultural hallmarks continue to impact the state into the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2019) Subject White people -- Race identity -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Race identity -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century Group identity -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century Nationalism -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century Social change -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century Sectionalism (United States) -- Social aspects -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. White people -- Race identity African Americans -- Race identity Group identity Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Nationalism Race relations Social change Social conditions SUBJECT Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140242 Mississippi -- Social conditions -- 19th century Subject Mississippi United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017018683 ISBN 9781496812087 1496812085 9781496812056 1496812050 9781496812063 1496812069 9781496812070 1496812077

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