Bibliograph

Manners and southern history, essays by Catherine Clinton ... [et al.], edited by Ted Ownby

Type

Label

Manners and southern history, essays by Catherine Clinton ... [et al.], edited by Ted Ownby

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Manners and southern history

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

71312760

Responsibility statement

edited by Ted Ownby

Series statement

Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History series

Sub title

essays by Catherine Clinton ... [et al.]

Summary

"The concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays in Manners and Southern History analyze these topics and more. Scholars here investigate the myriad ways in which southerners from the Civil War through the civil rights movement understood manners. Contributors write about race, gender, power, and change. Essays analyze the ways southern white women worried about how to manage anger during the Civil War, the complexities of trying to enforce certain codes of behavior under segregation, and the controversy of college women's dating lives in the raucous 1920s. Writers study the background and meaning of Mardi Gras parades and debutante balls, the selective enforcement of antimiscegenation laws, and arguments over the form that opposition to desegregation should take. Concluding essays by Jane Dailey and John F. Kasson summarize and critique the other articles and offer a broader picture of the role that manners played in the social history of the South"--Publisher's website

Table Of Contents

Southern ladies and she-rebels; or, femininity in the foxhole : -- Changing definitions of womanhood in the Confederate South -- The etiquette of race relations in the Jim Crow South -- Percent moonshine and fifty percent moonshine : social life and college youth culture in Alabama, 1913-1933 -- Scepter and masque : debutante rituals in Mardi Gras New Orleans -- What's sex got to do with it? antimiscegenation law and Southern white rhetoric -- Civilities and civil rights in Mississippi -- Remarks -- Taking manners seriously

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