By Thomas C. Holt, Laurie Beth Green, Charles Reagan Wilson
There's no denying that race is a serious factor in figuring out the South. in spite of the fact that, this concluding quantity of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture demanding situations earlier understandings, revealing the region's wealthy, ever-expanding range and offering new explorations of race relatives. In 36 thematic and 29 topical essays, members research such matters because the Tuskegee Syphilis research, jap American incarceration within the South, kinfolk among African americans and local americans, chinese language males adopting Mexican identities, Latino spiritual practices, and Vietnamese lifestyles within the sector. jointly the essays paint a nuanced portrait of the way thoughts of race within the South have stimulated its heritage, artwork, politics, and tradition past the common binary of black and white.
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In reality, however, Faulkner’s mythic South is a far more nuanced and complex world than its conventional image, with a complicated racial landscape that a simple black and white palette cannot capture. At the center of Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! saga, of course, are the relations between its black and white inhabitants, with the sins of slavery laying heavily on southern white consciences, not because of its brutality and exploitation of labor—which continued under new forms of labor control well into the 20th century—but because of the shame and confusion of the “miscegenated” bodies and cultures left in its wake.
Green was born into slavery, but Aunt Jemima was at least a copy of a copy (minstrel show “aunts”) of a copy (Aunt Chloe) of a white fantasy (the black mammy)—her connection to any real black woman lost in multiple layers of commercialized popular culture. Emancipation may have freed African American bodies, but popular culture made a great deal of profit selling black images. The tremendous popularity of Aunt Jemima in the late 19th century made clear the deep racial foundations of the increasingly national consumer market.
Cultural memory has become a major topic in the exploration of how the social construction of “the South” benefited some social groups and exploited others. Scholars in many disciplines have made the southern identity a major topic, and they have used a variety of methodologies to suggest what that identity has meant to different social groups. Literary critics have adapted cultural theories to the South and have raised the issue of postsouthern literature to a major category of concern as well as exploring the links between the literature of the American South and that of the Caribbean.
