E-book
Minding the South [electronic resource] / John Shelton Reed.
Record details
- ISBN: 0826264530 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780826264534 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 291 p.)
- Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-289). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The three Souths --The journalistic eye -- The mind of the South and Southern distinctiveness -- The times looks at Dixie -- Among the believers the secret history of civil rights -- The smoke never clears -- One tough lady -- A South that never was -- History and historians -- American weed -- Slaves View slavery -- Slipshod totalitarianism Southern intellect -- Southern studies abroad -- Friends and masters -- C. Vann Woodward -- Eugene D. Genovese -- M.E. Bradford -- What they say about Dixie -- Of Collard greens and kings -- Red and yellow, black, and white -- Telling about the South -- The imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady propagandist of the Old South -- The man from New Orleans -- The world's best-selling novelist -- Mover and shaker -- Hardy perennial -- The southern Elvis -- The end of Elvis -- Southern culture, High and low -- Southern laughter -- A cokelorist at work -- The national magazine of the South -- Carolina couch crime -- Southern lit (and one movie) -- Taking a stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood chain gangs -- Reflections -- The banner that Won't stay furled -- The most Southern state? -- Brits and grits -- Missing -- He's baaack -- If at first you don't secede ... -- Party down -- Our kind of Yankee -- But let's talk about me -- Mixing in the mountains -- Among the Baptists -- Choosing the South. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | HISTORY > State & Local. Electronic books Civilization. Manners and customs. Southern States > Civilization > 20th century. Southern States > Social life and customs. Southern States. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
John Shelton Reed taught for thirty-one years at the University of North Carolina, where he directed the Howard Odum Institute for Research in Social Science and helped to found the university's Center for the Study of the American South. A founding coeditor of the quarterly Southern Cultures, he has received many fellowships and prizes and has been president of the Southern Sociological Society and the Southern Association for Public Opinion Research. He was once a judge at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, and in 2001 he was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Reed has written many books including Minding the South, Kicking Back, My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Surveying the South (all with University of Missouri Press). He lives and writes in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
