Manners and Southern History (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617030406 ISBN 13: 9781617030406

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2011

Synopsis

The concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays in Manners and Southern History analyze these topics and more. Scholars here investigate the myriad ways in which southerners from the Civil War through the civil rights movement understood manners.

Contributors write about race, gender, power, and change. Essays analyze the ways southern white women worried about how to manage anger during the Civil War, the complexities of trying to enforce certain codes of behavior under segregation, and the controversy of college women's dating lives in the raucous 1920s. Writers study the background and meaning of Mardi Gras parades and debutante balls, the selective enforcement of antimiscegenation laws, and arguments over the form that opposition to desegregation should take. Concluding essays by Jane Dailey and John F. Kasson summarize and critique the other articles and offer a broader picture of the role that manners played in the social history of the South.

Essays by Catherine Clinton, Joseph Crespino, Jane Dailey, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Anya Jabour, John F. Kasson, Jennifer Ritterhouse, and Charles F. Robinson II

Ted Ownby teaches history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi.

About this title

Book Description:

Essays questioning the role of etiquette in the South from Civil War times through the Civil Rights era

From the Publisher:

These essays that question the role of etiquette in the south

---Offer careful considerations of the definition of manners and why manners matter

---Provide work from established scholars of history and southern studies

---Feature contributions from Catherine Clinton (Queen's University-Belfast); Joseph Crespino (Emory University); Jane Dailey (Johns Hopkins University); Lisa Lindquist Dorr (University of Alabama); Anya Jabour (University of Montana); John F. Kasson (University of North Carolina); Jennifer Ritterhouse (Utah State University); and Charles F. Robinson II (University of Arkansas).

---Include and introduction by the editor

---Continue the Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1617030406
• ISBN 13: 9781617030406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Ownby Ted