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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: indicted South
    sub title: public criticism, southern inferiority, and the politics of whiteness
  name:
    name part: Maxwell, Angie
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century moments in which the South was exposed to intense public criticism, identifying in white southerners' responses a pattern of defensiveness that shaped the region's political and cultural conservatism. Maxwell exposes the way the perception of regional inferiority confronted all types of southerners, focusing on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee and the birth of the anti-evolution movement, the publication of I'll Take My Stand and the turn to New Criticism by the Southern Agrarians and Virginia's campaign of Massive Resistance and Interposition in response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Tracing the effects of media scrutiny and the ridicule that characterized national discourse in each of these cases, Maxwell reveals the reactionary responses that linked modern southern whiteness with anti-elitism, states' rights, fundamentalism, and majoritarianism.
  table of contents: Introduction : the anatomy of inferiority -- The triptych of the twenties : Bryan, Darrow, and Mencken and what they meant to the white South -- Tennessee vs. civilization : Scopes takes on a southern accent -- Reactionary fundamentalism : the founding of William Jennings Bryan College -- Fugitives captured : the wasteland of southern identity -- A knock at midnight : the Agrarian plea for the South -- The not so new criticism : reconfigured, yet unregenerate -- Black, white, gray, and brown : the Old Dominion confronts integration -- Byrd watching : the South on the national stage -- Excursion into fantasy : the doctrine of interposition -- Epilogue : the politics of inferiority : conservatism, creationism, and the culture wars.
  note: Angie Maxwell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Public opinion
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American
  subject:
    topic: Regionalism
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Group identity
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Inferiority complex
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
  classification: F209 .M29 2014
  classification: 975
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New directions in southern studies
  identifier: 9781469611648 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 1469611643 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 9781469611655 (e-book)
  identifier: 2013041235
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131224
    record change date: 20151206100507.0
    record identifier: in00003471888