Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture
May 2011 · UNC Press Books
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From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even bolls of cotton. In Dreaming of Dixie, Karen Cox shows that the chief purveyors of nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity by marketing the South as a region still dedicated to America’s pastoral traditions. In addition, Cox examines how southerners themselves embraced the imaginary romance of the region’s past.
From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and...
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Christina Hendriks
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October 25, 2026
The writing style and prose of the book was circular and rudimentary.
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Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is author of Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture.
Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is author of Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture.
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