Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination

Southern Spaces

Joseph Crespino¹ 

[1] Emory University;

关键词: Politics and Government;    Regional Studies;    Social Movements;    Whiteness Studies;    @Emory;    Race Relations;   

DOI  :  10.18737/M7WW3Q

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Mississippi emerged as an iconic space for the struggle over the meaning of democracy and equality in the South and in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. Examining three metaphors widely used in those years, Professor Joseph Crespino argues that, as "the South on steroids," Mississippi became as much a contentious, imagined space as a real location for addressing national problems of white racism. The Mississippi of metaphor continues to affect, and to limit, how the South and the nation pursue social reform and equality.

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