The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

“Just as the original volume led to greater understanding and more in-depth analysis of southern culture, this volume will continue to fuel the academic engine that sheds light on 'the South,' life in the region, and the myths that surround both.” — The North Carolina Historical Review

“[The essays] are rich resources through which readers can acquire both a fundamental and advanced understanding. . . . The essays in the volume are, in general, written and edited well, and all entries include suggestions for further reading.” — Feminist Collections

“Gender pervades the southern past and present. From patriarchy to southern belle, mammy to NASCAR dad, Thomas Dixon Jr. to Betty Mae Jumper, and Loving v. Virginia to Designing Women, gender has greatly influenced our constructions of 'South' and 'southern.' The new and exciting essays in this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture remind us that gender continues to be a powerful force in both southern culture and historiography.” — Craig Thompson Friend, North Carolina State University, editor of Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction and coeditor of Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South