Bücher der Reihe The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective.

Part of the ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"", this volume addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. It evaluates how a distinct southern identity has been created, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction.

Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"", this volume surveys history in the American South since the Paleoindian period. It contains 118 essays that cover the turbulent past of the region that has witnessed frequent racial conflict.

Contains thematic articles that address subjects such as sexuality, respectability, and paternalism. This book also investigates the role of gender in broader subjects, including the civil rights movement, country music, and sports. It also highlights individuals such as Oprah Winfrey, the Grimke sisters, and Dale Earnhardt.

Transcending familiar categories of ""black"" and ""white,"" this volume offers an understanding of ""southernness"" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. Its essays examine the ways people perform and maintain cultural identities through folklore, religious faith, dress, music, cooking, and transgenerational tradition.

Features entries on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling as well as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. This encyclopedia contains contributions of more than 60 authorities in the field of religious culture in the American South.

Portrays the legal and political character of the South. This title contains 16 essays and 43 topical entries focussing on legal aspects. It also includes 34 essays and, 70 shorter topical entries on the political scenario.

Science and medicine have been critical to southern history and the formation of southern culture. For three centuries, scientists in the South have documented the lush natural world around them and set a lasting tradition of inquiry. The essays in this volume explore this legacy as well as recent developments in technology, research, and medicine in the South.

Offering a broad, up-to-date reference to the long history and cultural legacy of education in the American South, this timely volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys educational developments, practices, institutions, and politics from the colonial era to the present. With over 130 articles, this book covers key topics in education, including academic freedom; the effects of urbanization on segregation, desegregation, and resegregation; African American and women's education; and illiteracy. These entries, as well as articles on prominent educators, such as Booker T. Washington and C. Vann Woodward, and major southern universities, colleges, and trade schools, provide an essential context for understanding the debates and battles that remain deeply imbedded in southern education. Framed by Clarence Mohr's historically rich introductory overview, the essays in this volume comprise a greatly expanded and thoroughly updated survey of the shifting southern education landscape and its development over the span of four centuries.

Offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their non-work hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South--and how the South has shaped the history of mass media. An introductory overview by Allison Graham and Sharon Monteith is followed by 40 thematic essays and 132 topical articles that examine major trends and seminal moments in film, television, radio, press, and Internet history. Among topics explored are the southern media boom, beginning with the Christian Broadcast Network and CNN; popular movies, television shows, and periodicals that have shaped ideas about the region, including Gone with the Wind, The Beverly Hillbillies, Roots, and Southern Living; and southern media celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Truman Capote, and Stephen Colbert. The volume details the media's involvement in southern history, from depictions of race in the movies to news coverage of the civil rights movement and Hurricane Katrina. Taken together, these entries reveal and comment on the ways in which mass media have influenced, maintained, and changed the idea of a culturally unique South.

Surveying the vast diversity of foodways within the region and the collective qualities that make them distinctively southern, this volume marks the first encyclopedia of the food culture of the American South. It explore the richness of southern foodways, examining not only what southerners eat but also why they eat it.

Features the dynamic and divergent heart of southern culture. This book addresses subjects such as car culture, funerals, hip-hop, and powwows. It focuses on more specific elements of folklife, such as roadside memorials, collegiate stepping, quinceanera celebrations, New Orleans marching bands, and hunting dogs.

Examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. This volume reflects the variety of southern life, paying attention to the region's economic transformation in the decades.

Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This volume celebrates this essential element of southern life.

Explores language and dialect in the South, including English, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region's immigrant communities. Topical entries in this work discuss changes in the pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of English in the increasingly mobile South.

Discusses the contestable issue of where the cultural South is located, both on maps and in the minds of Americans. The author's introductory essay explores the evolution of geographic patterns of life within the region - agricultural practices, urban patterns, residential buildings, religious preferences, foodways, and language.

Offers an authoritative and interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to social class in the US South from the colonial era to the present. With introductory essays by J. Wayne Flynt and by editors Larry J. Griffin and Peggy G. Hargis, the volume is a comprehensive, stand-alone reference to this complex subject, which underpins the history of the region and shapes its future.

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume surveys the dynamic environmental forces that have shaped human culture in the region - and the ways humans have shaped their environment.

Celebrates the South's literary culture and recognizes the evolution of the southern literary canon. This volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality.