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Beyond the Ozarks

University of Arkansas

Indicted by the Nation

KUAF

Published June 23, 2014 at 12:00 PM CDT

UA Professor Angie Maxwell argues that the attention the South received throughout the 20th century in regards to three particular events has shaped the Southern Identity that exists yet today. She discusses her book The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the the Politics of Whiteness.

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