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Title: Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s by Pete Daniel ISBN: 0-8078-4848-4 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent appraisal of the Southern paradox
Comment: The 1950's South was both a time and a place of contradictions. On the one hand, there was a cultural revolution going on that fused both white and black musical tastes into one revolutionary music genre (rock 'n' roll) and a political revolution that went on (integration) which made the cultural achievements seem to pale in comparison. In essence, the South of the 1950's was a confusing maelstrom of contradictory policies and failed opportunities for peaceful change.
So argues Pete Daniel in his book "Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950's". Daniel's thesis is that the South offered ripe opportunities for change during the immediate post-World War II era but these opportunities were overlooked by the fact that warring factions between African-Americans and whites prevented to make important cultural revolutions make a difference in the political spectrum. These important cultural revolutions consisted of: the importance of rhythm and blues in forging feelings of appreciation between blacks and white country and western singers, the rise of NASCAR as a unifying factor among lower-class whites to challeng the hegemony of the white middle and upper-classes, and, finally, the rebeliousness exhibited by both white and black youth to forge a new consensus for political change. Daniel's book does an excellent job of explaining both why there were contradictions in Southern society and how these contradictions contributed to a painfully fought battle for integration and equal rights. This is a battle which is still being fought today but more on a state's rights and regionalistic front than a racial front.
Daniel's book is a true lesson in primary source research and his endnotes clearly demonstrate this. Interviews, 4 pages of manuscript collection sources, and numerous prominent secondary sources fully back up a thought-provoking thesis. This book is a welcome addition to southern historiography.
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Title: The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 by Kari Frederickson ISBN: 0807849103 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: 26 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (GENDER AND AMERICAN CULTURE) by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore ISBN: 0807845965 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Making Whiteness : The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 by Grace Elizabeth Hale ISBN: 0679776206 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 (The Working Class in American History) by Brian Kelly ISBN: 0252069331 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: One Kind of Freedom : The Economic Consequences of Emancipation by Roger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch ISBN: 0521795508 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 16 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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