5. The evolving South

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Charles Reagan Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
American South ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Black American ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Reverse Migration ◽  
The American South

‘The evolving South’ explores the evolving American South in the 1970s. It looks at the beginning of a southern turn in black American culture, which coincided with the beginnings of a dramatic reverse migration as African Americans moved to the South. The “Sunbelt” became the term for a now-prosperous, fast-growing, and urbanizing South, attracting northern and international investment and gaining a large percentage of federal funding through government programs. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party had anchored the Solid South in national politics and was the only functioning party through most of the twentieth century. The effects of globalization were significant in the American South.

Dance

2020 ◽  
pp. 274-304
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American South ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Pueblo Indian ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Ritual Dance ◽  
The American South

This chapter examines the ways in which Lawrence contributed extensive and innovative literary engagements with dance in the modernist period. Lawrence’s citations of dance are most widely associated with the liberation of the body and identity through early twentieth-century dance practices such as social dance, Greek dance, and the work of Isadora Duncan. Yet, as this chapter explores, Lawrence’s narratives also reflect the aesthetics initiated by the innovations of the Ballets Russes, European Expressionism, and, latterly, the ritual dance of the American South - of Native and Pueblo Indian forms. In his late work Lawrence especially invokes dance experimentally to formulate a new literary critique of a failing European culture.

Slave Culture

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Sustained Attention ◽  
American South ◽  
Source Population ◽  
Work Patterns ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Task System ◽  
The American South

This article reviews scholarship on slave culture and the slave experience. Historians of the American South have had an interest in slavery since the early twentieth century but not until fairly recently have they paid sustained attention to the enslaved. Historians have begun to examine slaves, providing a bottom-up analysis of how slavery and slaves shaped their culture, daily lives, and southern white culture generally. This more recent emphasis has been sensitive to the importance of variables: how southern slave culture was shaped by time, place, work patterns, source population (the origins of African-born slaves); whether a region was under English, Dutch, Spanish, Spanish, French, or American jurisdiction; whether slaves lived and worked in societies with slaves or slave societies; whether slaves were skilled, toiled under the task system, or were gang labour; whether they produced tobacco, indigo, rice, sugar, and cotton; their proximity to Native Americans or Spaniards; and whether they lived in times of war or peace.

scholarly journals A Public Good: Documenting the American South and Slave Narratives

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-124
Author(s):  
Patricia Buck Dominguez ◽  
Joe A. Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American South ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Publishing Program ◽  
The American South ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
The University

Documenting the American South (DAS) is an electronic publishing program of the University of North Carolina Library that provides public access to primary source materials related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the twentieth century.1 It includes mainly nineteenth- and early twentieth-century published texts, with large numbers of autobiographies, biographies, essays, travel accounts, poetry, diaries, letters, and memoirs. It also offers a few titles published in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and some manuscripts, images, and audio files. DAS currently includes ten thematic collections.2 The American South has a unique cultural . . .

Unseeing the Body with Bodies on the Move: An Epistemology for Bodies through Certeau and Holy Week Processions

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-425
Author(s):  
Jodi L. A. Belcher
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American South ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
Theological Turn ◽  
The American South ◽  
The City

The twentieth-century philosophical and theological turn to the body challenged modern Western conceptions of bodies as closed, independent entities, but it has not halted the objectifying epistemology that produces this understanding of bodies. To reform the perceptual lens that renders bodies into objects, this article develops an alternative epistemology grounded in participatory interaction in lived space. I bring Michel de Certeau's discussion of the practice of walking the city into conversation with my ethnographic study of Lent and Easter at an Episcopal church in the American South. I argue that Certeau's construal of walking as a way of unseeing the city from a voyeur's perspective also generates a way of unseeing the body as a closed, independent object. I apply Certeau's work to my case study of Holy Week processions to show that an epistemology of unseeing enables a perception of bodies as journeys to emerge.

“Into the Thick of the Fray”

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 261-287
Author(s):  
Kate Burlingham
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
American South ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Black American ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
Mission Schools ◽  
American Foreign Relations ◽  
The American South

This article considers American foreign relations with Angola by exploring the application of so-called adaptive education. Beginning in 1919, black American missionaries at the Congregational Galangue mission station instituted systems of schooling originally developed among freedmen and women in the American South after the Civil War. These pedagogies were specifically designed to educate black Americans without upsetting dominant white structures. When transferred to Angola, these same teachings helped to empower Angolans economically and, ultimately, politically. And yet, they carried with them the unresolved legacy of American slavery. The success of Southern-inspired mission schools among Angolans opens up new questions about the legacies of slavery in US foreign relations with Angola and Africa.

The Unsolid South

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devin Caughey
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Congressional Voting ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
National Representation ◽  
Jim Crow Era ◽  
The American South ◽  
The One ◽  
Partisan Competition

During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an outsized role in national politics. This book provides an entirely new understanding of electoral competition and national representation in this exclusionary one-party enclave. Challenging the notion that the Democratic Party's political monopoly inhibited competition and served only the Southern elite, the book demonstrates how Democratic primaries—even as they excluded African Americans—provided forums for ordinary whites to press their interests. Focusing on politics during and after the New Deal, the book shows that congressional primary elections effectively substituted for partisan competition, in part because the spillover from national party conflict helped compensate for the informational deficits of elections without party labels. The book draws on a broad range of historical and quantitative evidence, including archival materials, primary election returns, congressional voting records, and hundreds of early public opinion polls that illuminate ideological patterns in the Southern public. Defying the received wisdom, this evidence reveals that members of Congress from the one-party South were no less responsive to their electorates than members from states with true partisan competition. Reinterpreting a critical period in American history, this book reshapes our understanding of the role of parties in democratic theory and sheds critical new light on electoral politics in authoritarian regimes.

AS IF NOTHING SHOULD BE LOST: MICHAEL O'BRIEN, THE AMERICAN SOUTH, AND THE COSMOPOLITAN IDEAL

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-236
Author(s):  
STEVEN M. STOWE
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American South ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
The South ◽  
The American South ◽  
As If

When groups of historians studying the American South got together in the late 1970s there was a clannish feel, mostly white, mostly male. Mostly southern, too, and while non-southerners were not unwelcome they were noticed. Why are you interested in studying us? was asked politely, with a hint of a hidden punchline, a question for outsiders. So it is a strange turn that an outsider, Michael O'Brien, a soft-spoken, level Englishman, began a career in that decade which would make him one of the leading historians of the South in the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Maybe even stranger is that he did this as a historian of southern intellectual life.

AGAINST WHITENESS: RACE AND PSYCHOLOGY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-208
Author(s):  
RICHARD H. KING
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
American South ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
The American South ◽  
The Way

It is tempting to think that we have heard just about all we want or need to know about race. As the above quotes indicate, modern notions of race have always revolved around the faculty of vision, with supplementary contributions from other senses such as hearing, as Arendt notes in a tacit allusion to one mark of Jewish difference—the way they sounded when concentrated in urban settings. Yet two very recent works—Mark M. Smith's How Race Is Made and Anne C. Rose's Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South—have much to teach us about how race has “worked”, particularly in the twentieth-century South but also, by implication, in the United States in general. Both works assume that, historically, race is no mere add-on to the self, a kind of externality that, once detected, can be relatively easily excised. Rather, it stands right at the heart of personal and group identity in a nation where race and ethnicity continue to assume surprising new shapes and forms.

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