The Southern Way of Life

Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South

De: Charles Reagan Wilson

Narrado por: Chris Abernathy

Duración: 24 h y 2 m

Resumen del Editor

How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three centuries of southern regional consciousness across many genres, disciplines, and cultural strains, Wilson considers and challenges prior presentations of the region, advancing a vision of southern culture that has always been plural, dynamic, and complicated by race and class.

Structured in three parts, The Southern Way of Life takes listeners on a journey from the colonial era to the present, from when complex ideas of "southern civilization" rooted in slaveholding and agrarianism dominated to the twenty-first-century rise of a modern, multicultural "southern living." As Wilson shows, there is no singular or essential South but rather a rich tapestry woven with contestations, contingencies, and change.

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View from a Southerner

My roots are definitely in the South with many ancestors who fought for the CSA. The book was definitely well researched and provided many divergent views about The South I learned a lot and would recommend the book. It did have one tragic flaw. When it came to Trump it was clear that the author hated Trump. He was less critical of real racists like Bull Connor, George Wallace & Lester Maddux than he was Trump