{"product_id":"9781604736410","title":"Manners and Southern History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays in \u003ci\u003eManners and Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e analyze these topics and more. Scholars here investigate the myriad ways in which southerners from the Civil War through the civil rights movement understood manners. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors write about race, gender, power, and change. Essays analyze the ways southern white women worried about how to manage anger during the Civil War, the complexities of trying to enforce certain codes of behavior under segregation, and the controversy of college women's dating lives in the raucous 1920s. Writers study the background and meaning of Mardi Gras parades and debutante balls, the selective enforcement of antimiscegenation laws, and arguments over the form that opposition to desegregation should take. Concluding essays by Jane Dailey and John F. Kasson summarize and critique the other articles and offer a broader picture of the role that manners played in the social history of the South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssays by Catherine Clinton, Joseph Crespino, Jane Dailey, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Anya Jabour, John F. Kasson, Jennifer Ritterhouse, and Charles F. Robinson II \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Ownby teaches history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113139618032,"sku":"9781604736410","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781604736410_p0.jpg?v=1763830566","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781604736410","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}