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African American history
Albion Tourgee
Author_K. Stephen Prince
blackface minstrelsy
carpetbaggers
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Civil War
cultural history
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Frederick Douglass
Henry Grady
intellectual history
Jim Crow
Ku Klux Klan
lynching
New South
performance culture
plantation fiction
popular culture
print culture
racial violence
Reconstruction
retreat from Reconstruction
reunion
segregation
slavery
southern history
southern identity
stories
storytelling
the southern question
travel writing
U.S. South
Product details
- ISBN 9781469627281
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 157 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2016
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. In Stories of the South, K. Stephen Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow.
Examining novels, minstrel songs, travel brochures, illustrations, oratory, and other cultural artifacts produced in the half century following the Civil War, Prince demonstrates the centrality of popular culture to the reconstruction of southern identity, shedding new light on the complicity of the North in the retreat from the possibility of racial democracy.
Examining novels, minstrel songs, travel brochures, illustrations, oratory, and other cultural artifacts produced in the half century following the Civil War, Prince demonstrates the centrality of popular culture to the reconstruction of southern identity, shedding new light on the complicity of the North in the retreat from the possibility of racial democracy.
K. Stephen Prince is assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida, USA.
