Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South by Tara McPherson

Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

Tara McPherson

318 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination-the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas abo...

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