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Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915 K. Stephen Prince
Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915
K. Stephen Prince
"In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, 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. 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"--
336 pages, 24 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 29, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469627281 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 234 × 19 mm · 482 g |
| Language | English |
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