"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Social Class in the American South 1 -- Agriculture 57 -- American Revolution 61 -- Antiunionism and Right-to-Work Laws 66 -- Asian Americans 71 -- Black Elite and the Black Middle Class 78 -- Civil Rights Movement 80 -- Collective Memory 85 -- Crime and Punishment 87 -- Demagogues 92 -- Education 97 -- Environment 101 -- Ethnicity 105 -- Foodways 109 -- Free Blacks 112 -- Gender 118 -- Honor 122 -- Humor 128 -- Industrialization and Deindustrialization 136 -- Industrialization, Employment, and Organized Labor 140 -- Jews 144 -- Labor, Geography of 146 -- Latinos 252 -- Latino Workers 256 -- Literature 162 -- Lynching 166 -- Middle Class, Development of 172 -- Migration 176 -- Music 181 -- Place and Space 186 -- Political Behavior 190 -- Populist Movement 198 -- Poverty 201 -- Race and Labor, since 1865 209 -- Racial Attitudes 223 -- Radicalism 222 -- Radio, Television, and Film 227 -- Reconstruction and Redemption 230 -- Religion 235 -- Secession, the Confederacy, and the Civil War 239 -- Sharecropping and Tenancy 242 -- Slaveholders, Black 247 -- Slavery as a Class System 252 -- Social Reform, 1932-1954 255 -- Southern Identity 260 -- Sports 263 -- Stereotypes, Female 267 -- Stereotypes, Male 272 -- Sunbelt South 275 -- Tourism 283 -- Upper Class, White 287 -- Urbanization 290 -- Voting Rights 295 -- Welfare and Charity 301 -- Women, White, Working-Class 303 -- Women and Labor 306 -- Working Class, Black 310 -- American Federation of Labor 313 -- Anti-Semitism 315 -- Appalachia 317 -- Artisans 319 -- Bacon's Rebellion 321 -- Black Belt 322 -- Bluegrass Music 324 -- Blues Music 326 -- Braden, Carl, and Anne McCarty 328 -- Campbell, Will 330 -- Child Labor 332 -- Citizens' Councils 333 -- Civic and Historical Pageants and Pilgrimages 334 -- Clubwomen 337 -- Coal and Iron Workers 339 -- Congress of Industrial Organizations 341 -- Convict Lease System and Peonage 343 -- Country Music 346 -- Desertion during the Civil War 348 -- Fraternal Orders 350 -- Freedmen's Bureau 351 -- Gated Communities 353 -- General Textile Strike of 1934 357 -- Geophagia and Pica 357 -- Global South 358 -- Greenbackers 361 -- Hamer, Fannie Lou 363 -- Highlander Folk School / Highlander Research and Education Center 365 -- Hillbillies, Crackers, Rednecks, and White Trash 367 -- Horton, Myles 370 -- Hunting and Fishing 372 -- Indentured Servants 373 -- Indian Removal, 1800-1840 375 -- Industrial Workers of the World 376 -- In-Migration 378 -- Jacksonian Democracy 379 -- Jazz 381 -- Kester, Howard Anderson 383 -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. 385 -- Knights of Labor 386 -- Ku Klux Klan and Other White Racist Organizations 388 -- Longshoremen 390 -- Lumber Workers 391 -- Lumpkin, Grace 393 -- Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre 393 -- Mardi Gras 394 -- Mason, Lucy Randolph 399 -- Memory, Appalachian 400 -- Migrant Workers 402 -- Military Academies 403 -- Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers 407 -- Mitchell, H. L. 409 -- Nascar 410 -- New Deal 412 -- New South, 19th-Century 414 -- 1938 Economic Report on the South 415 -- Oil Workers 417 -- Operation Dixie 419 -- Ozarks 421 -- Pellagra 423 -- Poultry Workers 425 -- Railroad Workers 427 -- Raper, Arthur 430 -- Rap Music 431 -- Readjusters 434 -- Regulator Movement 436 -- Rock 'n' Roll 437 -- Service Workers 439 -- Shape-Note Singing 441 -- Share Croppers' Union and Southern Tenant Farmers' Union 443 -- Socialism and Communism 444 -- Southern Conference for Human Welfare / Southern Conference Educational Fund 446 -- Southern Regional Council 448 -- Southern Student Organizing Committee 449 -- Spiritual and Gospel Music 451 -- Steelworkers 455 -- Textile Workers 457 -- Timber and Naval Stores 459 -- Tobacco Workers 462 -- Washington, Booker T. 464 -- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 466 -- West, Don 468 -- Williams, Claude 469 -- Yeomanry 471 -- "You Might Be a Redneck If..." 472.