Southern Folk, Plain & Fancy
Native White Social Types
Title Details
Pages: 136
Illustrations: 21 photos
Trim size: 6.000in x 8.000in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 07/01/1988
ISBN: 9-780-8203-1023-7
List Price: $22.95
Southern Folk, Plain & Fancy
Native White Social Types
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Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types—gentleman and lady, "lord of the lash" and cunning belle, fun-loving "good old boy," depraved redneck, and other figures—that have animated the region since antebellum times.
Drawing on television, film, and country music, Reed creates a typology of white southerners that includes the hero, the villain, the fool, and the victim. In doing so, he provides a strong argument for the roles of the media, labeling theory, and intergroup relations in the creation and maintenance of stereotypes . . . Reed's book is highly readable and entertaining, but with sociological substance as well.
—Choice
