Manners and Southern History

by Ted Ownby (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604736410
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	03/31/2011
Series:	Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	186
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ted Ownby is William F. Winter Professor of History and professor of southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is editor of The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South, The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, and Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South and coeditor of Clothing and Fashion in Southern History, The Mississippi Encyclopedia, and Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson, all published by University Press of Mississip

Table of Contents

Introduction     vii
Southern Ladies and She-Rebels; or, Femininity in the Foxhole: Changing Definitions of Womanhood in the Confederate South   Anya Jabour     1
The Etiquette of Race Relations in the Jim Crow South   Jennifer Ritterhouse     20
Fifty Percent Moonshine and Fifty Percent Moonshine: Social Life and College Youth Culture in Alabama, 1913-1933   Lisa Lindquist Dorr     45
Scepter and Masque: Debutante Rituals in Mardi Gras New Orleans   Catherine Clinton     76
What's Sex Got to Do with It? Antimiscegenation Law and Southern White Rhetoric   Charles F. Robinson II     97
Civilities and Civil Rights in Mississippi   Joseph Crespino     114
Remarks   Jane Dailey     137
Taking Manners Seriously   John F. Kasson     152
Contributors     163
Index     165