White Masculinity in the Recent South

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Telling White Men’s Stories 1 trent watts Church Camping and White Southern Manhood 30 Evangelical Males and Christian Primitivism, 1920s–1970s ted ownby Where the Action Is 46 Interstate Rest Areas, the Creation of Gay Space, and the Recovery of a Lost Narrative brock thompson Political Parties 63 College Social Fraternities, Manhood, and the Defense of Southern Traditionalism, 1945–1960 anthony james A Real Man’s Place 86 Attitudes and Environment at a Southern Deer Camp adam watts A Question of Honor 99 Masculinity and Massive Resistance to Integration steve estes The Boycotting of Coach Rutter 121 Manhood, Race, and Authority in Post-1970 Mississippi trent watts Neo-Confederates in the Basement 146 The League of the South and the Crusade against Southern Emasculation k. michael prince “The Most Man in the World” 172 Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Cult of Southern Masculinity court carney White Southern Masculinity and Southern Comfort 186 An Interview with Kate Davis larry vonalt Doctor’s Son 206 edwin t. arnold Drinking Poisoned Waters 220 Traumatized Masculinity and White Southern Identity in Contemporary Family Memoirs james watkins Ratliff and the Demise of Male Mastery 234 Faulkner’s Snopes Trilogy and Cold War Masculinity susan v. donaldson Where Has the Free Bird Flown? 251 Lynyrd Skynyrd and White Southern Manhood barbara ching Contributors 267 vi Contents ...