Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory

by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Book Overview

Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. Indeed, today's controversies over flying the Confederate flag, renaming schools and streets, and commemorating the Civil War and the civil rights movement are only the latest examples of this ongoing divisive contest over issues of regional identity and heritage. The Southern Past argues that these battles are ultimately about who has the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674027213
• ISBN13: 9780674027213
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Not a bad book for Public History

I did not like his treatment of women, perhaps because he is a man he would look for no other motive than power.