The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

“[A] multi-year, multi-dimensional, and unprecedented series.” — Library Journal

“Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers.” — CHOICE

“Holt and Green have made a valuable contribution to race and southern culture studies, as well as The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture series. This volume is a necessary contribution to a field flooded with research.” — Tennessee Libraries

“A valuable contribution to our understanding of the South’s complicated multiracial history.” — The North Carolina Historical Review

“This important volume situates the multiracial South at the crossroads of Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean by exploring the region as a complex racial borderland of diverse cultures and tangled histories. An indispensable guide to understanding the dynamic and fluid culture of the global South.” — Neil Foley,Southern Methodist University, author of Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity

“It’s impossible to imagine a better starting point for anyone seeking a fuller appreciation of the origins, evolution, and implications of race as a deeply embedded omnipresence in southern life. The editors and contributors surely deserve our thanks for assembling a volume that treats the South’s lengthy and tangled racial past in so much depth yet engages so effectively a present where race now defines, and frequently divides, along not just one but several color lines.” — James C. Cobb, author of The South and America since World War II