Heritage and Hate: Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities

by Stephen M. Monroe

How southern universities continue to wrestle with the words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions

The US South is a rhetorical landscape that pulsates with division, a place where words and symbols rooted in a deeply problematic past litter the ground and contaminate the soil. Stephen M. Monroe's provocative study focuses on predominantly white southern universities where Old South rhetoric still reverberates,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817320938
• ISBN13: 9780817320935
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"