Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South

by Megan Hunt

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of race, class, and gender to cleanse and redeem the wider nation from the implications of systemic racism. As Southern by the Grace of God reveals, however, Hollywood manipulates southern religion (in particular) to further enhance this pattern of difference and regional exceptionalism, consistently displacing broader American racism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082036763X
• ISBN13: 9780820367637
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"