Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South: Conversations with a Damn Yankee (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781666923711)

Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South: Conversations with a Damn Yankee finds that Lexington-Rockbridge, VA, community sentiments toward Southern symbols such as the Confederate Battle Flag and Robert E. Lee are not necessarily reducible to a racial divide. John F. Cataldi uses data to demonstrate that most black and white respondents navigate a social balance between the extremes of conservation and progress as a way to productively coexist and unify as a community rather than maintain an insular posture or cause division based solely on symbolic ideology. These findings challenge conventional sociological and media-provided paradigms and broaden the discussion of what tolerance and situational context mean for a large spectrum of community members who live in the milieu of Confederate symbols every day.

Author: John F. Cataldi
ISBN-10: 1666923710
ISBN-13: 9781666923711
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2025
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d