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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New directions in southern studies
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New directions in southern studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Family crises or home remedies : defining the problems among African Americans and whites in the South, 1890s-1930s -- Yours for the cause of peace and brotherhood, 1930s-1960s -- The white man's holy institution of matrimony : massive resistance as a movement for family protection, 1950s-1960s -- The only American community where men call each other "brother" when they meet : redefining brotherhood and sisterhood in the 1960s -- "Hurtin' words," "free bird," and family values : defining family crises among white Southerners in the 1970s -- Not a problem people : rejecting family crisis in the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Summary |
"When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South. Ownby shows that it was common for both African Americans and whites to discuss family life in terms of crisis, but they reached very different conclusions about causes and solutions. In the civil rights period, many embraced an ideal of Christian brotherhood as a way of transcending divisions. Opponents of civil rights denounced "brotherhoodism" as a movement that undercut parental and religious authority. Others, especially in the African American community, rejected the idea of family crisis altogether, working to redefine family adaptability as a source of strength. Rather than attempting to define the experience of an archetypal "southern family," Ownby looks broadly at contexts such as political and religious debates about divorce and family values, southern rock music, autobiographies, and more to reveal how people in the South used the concept of the family as a proxy for imagining a better future or happier past."--Amazon.com. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Families -- Southern States.
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Families. |
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Southern States. |
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Families -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century.
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Families -- Public opinion. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Social problems -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century.
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Social problems -- Public opinion. |
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Social problems. |
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ownby, Ted. Hurtin' words. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469646992 (DLC) 2018020259 (OCoLC)1035215138 |
| ISBN |
9781469647012 (electronic book) |
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146964701X (electronic book) |
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9781469647029 (electronic book) |
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1469647028 (electronic book) |
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9781469646992 |
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1469646994 |
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9781469647005 |
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1469647001 |
| Standard No. |
40028714618 |
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