{"product_id":"stories-of-the-south-race-and-the-reconstruction-of-southern-identity-1865-1915-9781469627281","title":"Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915","description":"In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. In \u003ci\u003eStories of the South\u003c\/i\u003e, K. Stephen Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining novels, minstrel songs, travel brochures, illustrations, oratory, and other cultural artifacts produced in the half century following the Civil War, Prince demonstrates the centrality of popular culture to the reconstruction of southern identity, shedding new light on the complicity of the North in the retreat from the possibility of racial democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e K. Stephen Prince\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.19w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469627281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrince, K. Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - K. Stephen Prince is assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115620687987,"sku":"9781469627281","price":59.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_27d403e1-679c-43c5-a0b8-51692e26eca4.jpg?v=1781787543","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/stories-of-the-south-race-and-the-reconstruction-of-southern-identity-1865-1915-9781469627281","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}