Southern Folk Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types (Lamar Memorial Lectures / Mercer University) (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures) - Softcover

John Shelton Reed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820310239 ISBN 13: 9780820310237

Publisher: The University of Georgia Press, 1988

Synopsis

Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types--gentleman and lady, "lord of the lash" and cunning belle, fun-loving "good old boy," depraved redneck, and other figures--that have animated the region since antebellum times.

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Review:

Drawing on television, film, and country music, Reed creates a typology of white southerners that includes the hero, the villain, the fool, and the victim. In doing so, he provides a strong argument for the roles of the media, labeling theory, and intergroup relations in the creation and maintenance of stereotypes . . . Reed's book is highly readable and entertaining, but with sociological substance as well.

--Choice

About the Author:

JOHN SHELTON REED is founding coeditor of the journal Southern Cultures. He is the Mark W. Clark Visiting Professor History at the Citadel, and William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is coauthor, with Dale Volberg Reed, of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0820310239
• ISBN 13: 9780820310237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136