Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness

by Angie Maxwell

By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century moments in which the South was exposed to intense public criticism, identifying in white southerners' responses a pattern of defensiveness that shaped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469611643
• ISBN13: 9781469611648
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"