The American South and the self

Southern Cultures

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 6-28

  Griffin, Larry J ^a  

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EID: 67649498446     PISSN: 10688218     EISSN: 15341488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/scu.2006.0033     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Henry Steele Commager, The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s (Yale University Press, 1950), 284-85
2. Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (1950; rprt. Cambridge, 1970)
3. Fred Hobson, Tell About the South: 'The Southern Rage to Explain (Louisiana State University Press, 1983), 9
4. C. Vann Woodward, "The Search for Southern Identity," in Woodward, The Burden of Southern History, rev. ed. (Louisiana State University Press, 1968), 3-25
5. Sanford Levinson, Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Duke University Press, 1998), 31
6. Carl Degler, "Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis: The South, the North, and the "Nation" Journal of Southern History 53 (February 1987): 3-18
7. Larry J. Griffin, "Southern Distinctiveness, Yet Again; Or, Why America Still Needs the South," Southern Cultures 6 (Fall 2000): 51-76
8. J. Bill Berry, "The Southern Autobiographical Impulse," Southern Cultures 6 (Spring 2000): 7
9. Larry J. Griffin, "Why Was the South a Problem to America?" in The South as an American Problem, ed. Larry J. Griffin and Don H. Doyle (University of Georgia Press, 1995), 10-32
10. Sheldon Hackney, "The Contradictory South," Southern Cultures 7 (Winter 2001): 65-80
11. Jack Temple Kirby, Media-Made Dixie: The South in American Imagination (Louisiana State University Press, 1978)
12. Allison Graham, Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
13. That individuals develop a group, especially racial, identity because of the imposition of that identity on them by others is well documented. See, for example, George J. Sánchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Eos Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993)
14. and Mia Tuan, Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites: The Asian Experience Today (Rutgers University Press, 2003)
15. John Shelton Reed, Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism (University of North Carolina Press, 1983), 14
16. Reed, Southerners, 14
17. Larry J. Griffin, Ranae J. Evenson, and Ashley B. Thompson, "Southerners All?" Southern Cultures 11 (Spring 2005): 6-25. The Southern Focus Polls were sponsored by the University of North Carolina and the Atlanta Journal Constitution
18. Reed, Southerners, 23, 20
19. Reed, One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture (Louisiana State University Press, 1982)
20. Herbert Gans, "Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America," Ethnic and Racial Studies 2.1 (1979): 1-20
21. John Egerton, The Americanization of Dixie: the Southernization of America (Harper's Magazine Press, 1974)
22. Larry J. Griffin and Ashley B. Thompson, "Enough About the Disappearing South, What About the Disappearing Southerner?" Southern Cultures 9 (Fall 2003): 51-65
23. Reed's most forceful expression of his views on the regional identification process is found in "The Sociology of Regional Groups," in One South, 11-32. (The quote is on p. 16.)
24. See also Reed, The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society (1972; University of North Carolina Press, 1986)
25. and Reed, "Southerners as an American Ethnic Group," in Reed, "My Tears Spoiled My Aim" and Other Reflections on Southern Culture (Harcourt Brace, 1994), 29-41
26. Historian George Tindall and sociologist Lewis M. Killian were exploring the ethnic analogy at about the same time as Reed. See Tindall, "Beyond the Mainstream: The Ethnic Southerners," in Tindall, The Ethnic Southerners (Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 1-21
27. and Killian, White Southerners, rev. ed. (University of Massachusetts Press, 1985). Paralleling Reed, other social psychologists were also developing similar understandings of group identity
28. See, especially, Henri Tajfel, "Social Categorization, Social Identity and Social Comparison," in Tajfel, ed., Differentiation between Social Groups: Studies in the Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations (Academic Press, 1978), 61-76
29. and John C. Turner, Penelope J. Oakes, S. Alexander Haslam, and Craig McGarty, "Self and Collective: Cognition and Social Context," Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 20.5 (1994): 454-63
30. and Griffin, et al., "Southerners All?"
31. Quoted in NancyDorman-Hickson, review of Eudora Welty: A Writers Life, by Ann Waldron. Southern Living (February 1999)