ISBN:
9781496848130
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (299 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
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Abstract:
An unflinching chronicle of one Mississippian's reckoning with history.
Abstract:
Cover -- OUTLIVING THE WHITE LIE -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction. The Boy Emperor's New-Old Clothes -- Chapter 1. Race and Me and Mississippi -- Part 1. The Larger Implications of the Small Debates of the Moment -- Chapter 2. Our Distinguished Error Emeritus -- Chapter 3. Becoming Abraham Lincoln -- Remaining Robert E. Lee -- Chapter 4. The Riddle of the Confederate Sphinx -- Chapter 5. The Black Confederates Who Were, and Those Who Weren't -- Chapter 6. The Sins of the Fourth-Great-Grandfathers -- Chapter 7. Asset De-appreciation -- Part 2. The Importance of Slavery in the Antebellum South (and Beyond) -- Chapter 8. The "Peculiar" Case of the Antebellum South -- Chapter 9. Slavery's Capitalism -- Chapter 10. Slavery's Freedom -- Part 3. How Slavery Shackled the White South -- Chapter 11. The Two Souths of Tom and Lewis, Sam and Elijah -- Chapter 12. The One Percent -- Chapter 13. The Miseducation of the South -- Part 4. How the White South was Persuaded to Shackle Itself -- Chapter 14. The Invention of the White "Race" -- Chapter 15. "Racecraft" -- Chapter 16. The First Families of Racism -- Chapter 17. The Solidarity Myth -- Part 5. Constitutional Constructions, Reconstructions, and Deconstructions -- Chapter 18. Diogenes Finds His Honorably Honest Southern Man -- Chapter 19. Constitutional Construction and the Reconstruction of American Democracy -- Chapter 20. The Reconstruction and Deconstruction of American Democracy -- Chapter 21. When Jim Crow Was Chairman of the School Board -- Chapter 22. Mac and Black Annie -- Chapter 23. Affirmative Action for White People -- Chapter 24. The Second Reconstruction of American Democracy -- Part 6. The Second Deconstruction of American Democracy -- Chapter 25. The Great Migration of the Yellow Dogs -- Chapter 26. The Southern Strategy of the Republican Party.
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