"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
This essay explores how white Kansans employed images of the "South" and its association with racist violence in constituting the identity of Kansas as the "Free State" from 1865 until 1914. It argues that prevailing assumptions about the South offered a sectional imaginary throu...
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| Language: | English |
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2007-09-01
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| Series: | Southern Spaces |
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| Online Access: | https://southernspaces.org/node/42637 |