Southern Folk Plain and Fancy - Native White Social Types

Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types--gentleman and lady, 'lord of the lash' and cunning belle, fun-loving 'good old boy, ' depraved redneck, and other figures--that have animated the region since antebellum times.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Shelton Reed
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1988
• EAN: 9780820310237
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1023-7
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 201 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 200 g
• Series: Lamar Memorial Lectures / Merc
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories