The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking

First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South"--prosperous, powerful, racially harmonious--that developed in the three decades after the Civil War, and the transformation of that dream into widely accepted myths, shielding and perpetuating a conservative, racist society. Many young moderates of the period created a philosophy designed to enrich the region--attempting to both restore the power and prestige and to lay the race question to rest. In spite of these men and their efforts, their dream of a New South joined the Antebellum illusion as a genuine social myth, with a controlling power over the way in which their followers, in both North and South, perceived reality.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 06/01/2011
ISBN: 9781603061438
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d