Hurtin' Words
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African American autobiography
African American family
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Alice Walker and womanism
American South
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Black Family Reunion
black power
brotherhood and massive resistance
brotherhood and the civil rights movement
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Christian marriage counseling
Church of Christ divorce and remarriage debates
Clarence Jordan
Clifton Taulbert
divorce law and the South
divorce reform and the South
E. Franklin Frazier
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Family
family and massive resistance
family and the civil rights movement
family values religion
feminist fiction in the South
Habitat for Humanity
James Lawson
James McBride Dabbs
Josephine Humphreys
Joyce Ladner
Jr.
Kaye Gibbons
Lillian Smith
Marian Wright Edelman
Martin Luther King
Mary McLeod Bethune
Moynihan Report
opposition to the Moynihan Report
religion and the civil rights movement
Sarah Patton Boyle
sisterhood
Southern Rock music
Thomas Merton
Will Campbell
Product details
- ISBN 9781469646992
- Weight: 702g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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When Tammy Wynette sang ""D-I-V-O-R-C-E,"" she famously said she ""spelled out the hurtin' words"" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South. Ownby shows that it was common for both African Americans and whites to discuss family life in terms of crisis, but they reached very different conclusions about causes and solutions. In the civil rights period, many embraced an ideal of Christian brotherhood as a way of transcending divisions. Opponents of civil rights denounced ""brotherhoodism"" as a movement that undercut parental and religious authority. Others, especially in the African American community, rejected the idea of family crisis altogether, working to redefine family adaptability as a source of strength. Rather than attempting to define the experience of an archetypal ""southern family,"" Ownby looks broadly at contexts such as political and religious debates about divorce and family values, southern rock music, autobiographies, and more to reveal how people in the South used the concept of the family as a proxy for imagining a better future or happier past.
Ted Ownby is professor of history and Southern Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
