The indicted South [electronic resource] : public criticism, southern inferiority, and the politics of whiteness / Angie Maxwell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the anatomy of inferiority -- The triptych of the twenties : Bryan, Darrow, and Mencken and what they meant to the white South -- Tennessee vs. civilization : Scopes takes on a southern accent -- Reactionary fundamentalism : the founding of William Jennings Bryan College -- Fugitives captured : the wasteland of southern identity -- A knock at midnight : the Agrarian plea for the South -- The not so new criticism : reconfigured, yet unregenerate -- Black, white, gray, and brown : the Old Dominion confronts integration -- Byrd watching : the South on the national stage -- Excursion into fantasy : the doctrine of interposition -- Epilogue : the politics of inferiority : conservatism, creationism, and the culture wars.

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