One Homogeneous People: Narratives of White Southern Identity, 18901920,Used

One Homogeneous People: Narratives of White Southern Identity, 18901920,Used

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Southerners have a reputation as storytellers, as a people fond of telling about family, community, and the southern way of life. A compelling book about some of those stories and their consequences, One Homogeneous People examines the forging and the embracing of southern panwhiteness as an ideal during the volatile years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century.Trent Watts argues that despite real and signifcant divisions within the South along lines of religion, class, and ethnicity, white southernersespecially in moments of perceived dangerasserted that they were one people bound by a shared history, a love of family, home, and community, and an uncompromising belief in white supremacy. Watts explores how these southerners explained their region and its people to themselves and other Americans through narratives found in a variety of forms and contexts: political oratory, fiction, historiography, journalism, correspondence, literary criticism, and the built environment.Watts examines the assertions of an ordered, homogeneous white South (and the threats to it) in the unsettling years following the end of Reconstruction through the early 1900s. In three extended essays on related themes of race and power, the book demonstrates the remarkable similarity of discourses of panwhiteness across formal and generic lines. In an insightful concluding essay that focuses on an important but largely unexamined institution, Mississippis Neshoba County Fair, Watts shows how narratives of panwhite identity initiated in the late nineteenth century have persisted to the present day.Written in a lively style, One Homogeneous People is a valuable addition to the scholarship on southern culture and postReconstruction southern history.

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