Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites

by Wayne Flynt

Overview

"The best sort of introductory study . . . packed with enlightening information." —The Times Literary Supplement

Poor whites have been isolated from mainstream white Southern culture and have been in turn stereotyped as rednecks and Holy Rollers, discriminated against, and misunderstood. In their isolation, they have developed a unique subculture and defended it with a tenacity and pride that puzzles and confuses the larger society. Written 25 years ago, this book was one scholar's attempt to understand these people and their culture. For this new edition, Wayne Flynt has provided a new retrospective introduction and an up-to-date bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253217363
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	10/19/2004
Series:	Minorities in Modern America
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1260L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Wayne Flynt is Distinguished Professor of History at Auburn University.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction (2004)
1. The Invisible Poor: Toward a Definition of Southern Poor Whites
2. Dogtrots and Jack Tales: Toward a Definition of Poor White Culture
3. "Lint Heads" and "Diggers": The Forgotten People of the New South, 1865-1920
4. Progress and Poverty, Southern Style: The 1920s and 1930s
5. Southern Poverty Forgotten and Discovered—Again
6. Appalachian Spring—and Winter
7. "A time to weep, a time to laugh . . . "
Bibliography
Bibliographical Supplement (2004)
Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

Universityof North Carolina - John Reed

Wayne Flynt may not have started the late—twentieth—century wave of historical research on postbellum Southern poor whites, but he was the first to catch it. In engaging and accessible prose Dixie's Forgotten People surveyed what was in 1979 a largely unknown landscape and laid out an agenda for research that is still not completed. Flynt's retrospective introduction to this new edition is itself worth the price of the book.

University of North Carolina - John Reed

"Wayne Flynt may not have started the late—twentieth—century wave of historical research on postbellum Southern poor whites, but he was the first to catch it. In engaging and accessible prose Dixie's Forgotten People surveyed what was in 1979 a largely unknown landscape and laid out an agenda for research that is still not completed. Flynt's retrospective introduction to this new edition is itself worth the price of the book."

Editorial Reviews

"Wayne Flynt may not have started the late—twentieth—century wave of historical research on postbellum Southern poor whites, but he was the first to catch it. In engaging and accessible prose Dixie's Forgotten People surveyed what was in 1979 a largely unknown landscape and laid out an agenda for research that is still not completed. Flynt's retrospective introduction to this new edition is itself worth the price of the book."—John Reed, University of North Carolina

From the Publisher

"Wayne Flynt may not have started the late—twentieth—century wave of historical research on postbellum Southern poor whites, but he was the first to catch it. In engaging and accessible prose Dixie's Forgotten People surveyed what was in 1979 a largely unknown landscape and laid out an agenda for research that is still not completed. Flynt’s retrospective introduction to this new edition is itself worth the price of the book." —John Reed, University of North Carolina

John Reed