{"product_id":"the-indicted-south-angie-maxwell-9781469611648","title":"Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness","description":"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 the region's political and cultural conservatism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaxwell exposes the way the perception of regional inferiority confronted all types of southerners, focusing on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and the birth of the anti-evolution movement; the publication of \u003ci\u003eI'll Take My Stand\u003c\/i\u003e and the turn to New Criticism by the Southern Agrarians; and Virginia's campaign of Massive Resistance and Interposition in response to the \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e decision. Tracing the effects of media scrutiny and the ridicule that characterized national discourse in each of these cases, Maxwell reveals the reactionary responses that linked modern southern whiteness with anti-elitism, states' rights, fundamentalism, and majoritarianism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angie Maxwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469611643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469611648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 329","brand":"Angie Maxwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047075344639,"sku":"9781469611648","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_07451cd3-d1e0-4925-9627-2b0a75a8a706.jpg?v=1684988111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-indicted-south-angie-maxwell-9781469611648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}