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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2024

Lacy K. Ford
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina
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Americans in the twenty-first century find themselves searching for new understandings of their history. They seek explanations for chronic political polarization, acute pandemic polarization, social media addiction, heightened concern over global warming and armed global conflict, widening cultural and economic gaps between city and countryside, persistent racial tensions, gender divides, tensions over abortion rights and the public school curriculum, and a forty-year pattern of increasing economic inequality in the United States. Americans are looking for a past that can help them understand the divided and fractious present, a past that enlightens and inspires. In this collection of original essays, Lacy K. Ford uses the past to inform the present, as he provides a deeper, more nuanced understanding of American history and the American South�s complicated relationship with it.

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Understanding the American South
Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century
, pp. 1 - 10
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Introduction
  • Lacy K. Ford, University of South Carolina
  • Book: Understanding the American South
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009522038.001
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  • Introduction
  • Lacy K. Ford, University of South Carolina
  • Book: Understanding the American South
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009522038.001
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  • Introduction
  • Lacy K. Ford, University of South Carolina
  • Book: Understanding the American South
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009522038.001
Available formats
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