Standing at the Crossroads: Southern Life in the Twentieth Century

by Pete Daniel

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This engagingly-written survey examines the changes and constants of Southern culture. Always with a keen eye and sharp wit, Daniel stresses the diversity of Southern life, which includes not only regional variations but also divisions between black and white, male and female, rural and urban. From "separate but equal" to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s and its legacy, Standing at the Crossroads explores the extraordinary changes that transformed the South. Daniel takes the reader through a variety of topics that relate directly to the Southern experience: rural life, violence, music, literature, civil rights, unionism, urbanization, xenophobia, migration, religion, cockfighting, and stock car racing.
  • ISBN10 0801854954
  • ISBN13 9780801854958
  • Publish Date 24 January 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 259
  • Language English