One Homogeneous People: Narratives of White Southern Identity, 1890–1920

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction xv Chapter 1. The Road to a Closed Society: Mississippi Politics and the Language of White Southern Identity 1 Chapter 2. Manhood, Family, and White Identity in Thomas Nelson Page’s “Marse Chan” and Thomas W. Dixon’s The Leopard’s Spots 41 Chapter 3. “The South Is a Single, Homogeneous People”: Canonizing Southern History and Literature 87 Conclusion: “Mississippi’s Giant House Party”: Whiteness and Community at the Neshoba County Fair 139 Notes 161 Bibliography 199 Index 221 ...