The American South in the 1960s, Anatomy of Hatred: The Wounded Land, The New World of Negro Americans, My Hope for America and The Cause is Mankind: A Liberal Program for Modern America

1965 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-595
Author(s):  
Keith Hindell
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
American South ◽  
The American South ◽  
The 1960S

1. Becoming southern

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Charles Reagan Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
New World ◽  
American South ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
Staple Crops ◽  
The American South ◽  
Fertile Land

‘Becoming Southern’ discusses how Native Americans became the first southerners. They developed the first regional culture from environmental conditions that would always be a foundation of regional life. The Europeans who came to what became the American South brought with them preconceptions about that area, which were part of a New World that evoked images of fertile land that produced staple crops to enrich European nations, but also represented exploitation of African and indigenous labor and the threat of racial intermingling. The early 1700s were crucial years in the emergent South. The American Revolution itself was a landmark in the appearance of a self-conscious southern identity.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Charles Reagan Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
New World ◽  
American South ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early History ◽  
The South ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
The American South

The ‘Introduction’ provides an overview of the American South. Its early history illuminates the expansion of Europe into the New World, creating a colonial, plantation, slave society that made it different from other parts of the United States. Two broad geographical subdivisions anchor what became known as “the South”: an Uplands and a Lowlands. Ultimately, speaking of the South brings attention to the importance of regionalism in American history. Atlanta Olympics refurbished the South’s claim to a special southern hospitality, epitomizing such themes as race relations, economic development, and cultural expression that figure prominently in the larger story of the American South.

Desegregating Liberalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Jay
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
American South ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Lillian Smith ◽  
The American South ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Literary Devices

Lillian Smith, born in the American South, became a leading critic of white supremacy and segregation in the years from the 1920s to the 1960s. Her essays and most famous novel were radical challenges to the Jim Crow system and notable for their feminist critique of patriarchal gender norms. The chapter traces Smith’s development as an activist and writer, examines the literary devices she uses in her writing to educate readers, and considers her lasting impact on race studies and women’s studies. An analysis of her bestselling novel, Strange Fruit, demonstrates Smith’s commitment to exposing how racism and repressive sexual mores distort the lives of its major protagonists. Examination of the two editions of her major work, Killers of the Dream, shows how its autobiographical and pedagogical devices further develop the formal characteristics of liberal race fiction.

The Archaeology of African-American Slave Religion in the Antebellum South

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Orser
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
New World ◽  
American South ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
Antebellum Period ◽  
The American South ◽  
Exciting Development

An interest in New World slavery is a recent and exciting development within American archaeology. As archaeologists have rushed to discover the material aspects of what slaves ate, what kinds of dwellings they inhabited, and what sorts of material culture they used, they have also gathered information about slave religion. Although much of this information is incomplete and open to numerous interpretations, it nonetheless exposes an important area of archaeological endeavour. I explore some of what is today known about the slaves' religious observances, both African-inspired and non-African. My focus is on the antebellum period, roughly from 1800 to 1861, of the American South, with some reference to other times and places.

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