Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South

Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South

ISBN-10:
0820331694
ISBN-13:
9780820331690
Pub. Date:
10/15/2008
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10:
0820331694
ISBN-13:
9780820331690
Pub. Date:
10/15/2008
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South

Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South

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Overview

This collection of ten essays focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. The cultural ironies and contradictions that have arisen from southerners' efforts to commodify their identity reveal regional anxieties about consumerism, tourism, and memory.

The book's first section looks at southern souvenirs as abstractions of regional culture. Essays on such topics as Confederate imagery on consumer goods and the tacky figurine known as the Horny Hillbilly unpack the often incongruous meanings bestowed on souvenirs by their owners. Locales like Branson, Missouri, and the South of the Border tourist complex in South Carolina are discussed in the second section's essays, which consider how tourist sites can both exploit and depend on local culture. Recognizing the deep cultural meanings associated with food and eating, the final group of essays looks at the Krispy Kreme doughnut franchise, the themed Baltimore eatery Café Hon, and other manifestations of southern foodways.

Viewing a region often at odds with itself on matters like race and religion, Dixie Emporium identifies spaces, services, and products that construct various Souths that exaggerate, refute, or self-consciously safeguard elements of southernness.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780820331690
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

GLENN T. ESKEW is a professor of history at Georgia State University. He is the author of But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle, editor of Labor in the Modern South, and coeditor of Paternalism in a Southern City.

JOHN SHELTON REED is founding coeditor of the journal Southern Cultures. He is the Mark W. Clark Visiting Professor History at the Citadel, and William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is coauthor, with Dale Volberg Reed, of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South.

KAREN L. COX is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her books include Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture; Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South; and Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture.

W. FITZHUGH BRUNDAGE is the William B. Umstead Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890–1930 and The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.

ANTHONY J. STANONIS is a lecturer in modern U.S. history at Queens University, Belfast. He is the editor of Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South and author of Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945 (both Georgia).

ANTHONY J. STANONIS is a lecturer in modern U.S. history at Queens University, Belfast. He is the editor of Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South and author of Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945 (both Georgia).

Table of Contents


List of Illustrations     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Selling Dixies   Anthony J. Stanonis     1
Buying Memory: Souvenirs of the American South
Introduction: Thoughtful Souvenirs   Ted Ownby     19
"There Is an Abundance of Those Which Are Genuine": Northern Travelers and Souvenirs of the Antebellum South   Eric W. Plaag     24
Branding Dixie: The Selling of the American South, 1890-1930   Karen L. Cox     50
The Riddle of the Horny Hillbilly   Patrick Huber     69
Coloring the Market: Race and Consumerism
Introduction: Identity Market   W. Fitzhugh Brundage     89
Refining Religion: Consumerism and African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1917   John M. Giggie     94
Hillbilly Heaven: Branson Tourism and the Hillbilly of the Missouri Ozarks   Aaron K. Ketchell     120
Behind the Sombrero: Identity and Power at South of the Border, 1949-2001   Nicole King     148
Selling the Civil Rights Movement: Montgomery, Alabama, since the 1960s   Glenn T. Eskew     175
Consuming the South: Foodways and the Performance of Southern Culture
Introduction: Southern Eats   John Shelton Reed     205
Just Like Mammy Used to Make: Foodways in the Jim CrowSouth   Anthony J. Stanonis     208
Mechanized Southern Comfort: Touring the Technological South at Krispy Kreme   Carolyn de la Pena     234
The Cafe Hon: Working-Class White Femininity and Commodified Nostalgia in Postindustrial Baltimore   Mary Rizzo     264
Contributors     287
Index     289
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