Heritage and hate : Old South rhetoric at Southern universities /

Heritage and hate : Old South rhetoric at Southern universities /

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The US South is a rhetorical landscape that pulsates with divisions, a place where words and symbols rooted in a deeply problematic past litter the ground and contaminate the soil. Stephen M. Monroe's provocative study focuses on predominantly white southern universities where Old South rhetori...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monroe, Stephen M., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2021]
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Subjects:
University of Mississippi > Case studies.
Rhetoric > Confederate States of America > Influence.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > Southern States.
Universities and colleges > Social aspects > Southern States.
Group identity > Southern States.
Collective memory > Southern States.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions.
Racism > Southern States > History.
Southern States > Race relations.
Case studies
History
Online Access:CONNECT
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "A Name So Beautiful and Appropriate": "Ole Miss" and the Ideology of Self-identification from 1897 to 1971
  • Chapter 2. What is a Hotty Toddy? From School Cheer to Racist Jeer
  • Chapter 3. Minimization at Mizzou: Confederate Rhetoric and Interpretive Difference
  • Chapter 4. Obfuscation at the University of Mississippi
  • Chapter 5. Football, Flags, and Rhetorical Fury
  • Chapter 6. Origins and repercussions: The Continuum of Confederate Rhetoric
  • Chapter 7. Reasons for Hope? Scholars of Language and a New South Rhetoric.

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