Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi emerged as an iconic space for the struggle over the meaning of democracy and equality in the South and in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. Examining three metaphors widely used in those years, Professor Joseph Crespino argues that, as "the South on steroids," Miss...
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| Language: | English |
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2006-10-01
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| Series: | Southern Spaces |
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| Online Access: | https://southernspaces.org/node/42659 |