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Honor Ted Ownby\u27s Contributions by Supporting Center Students
No full textRetired University of Mississippi history and Southern Studies professor Ted Ownby often talks of his fondness for former students, and now those students can make history by providing for future scholars through the Ted Ownby Initiative to Support Graduate Education. By establishing the Ted Ownby Initiative to Support Graduate Education, graduate students in the years to come will have the opportunity to research and document in an interdisciplinary program. Ownby has always known that history matters, just as the future of Southern studies does
Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (1990)
No full textThe Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex--and often opposing--attitudes. Ownby\u27s re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating. He paints the saloon and the street, the cockfighting and dogfighting rings as realms of distinctly male vices, enjoyed lustily by men seeking to escape the sweet virtue of the Southern Christian home. --Nation A bold new thesis. . . . [Ownby] gives us guideposts in the ongoing search for the meaning of southern history. --Journal of Southern History I suspect that for many years ahead Ted Ownby\u27s Subduing Satan will serve as the standard guide on how to write religious social history. --Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida This is one of the freshest and most interesting books written about the American South in years. By focusing on the cultural conflicts of everyday life, Ownby gets us right to the heart of white culture in the South between Reconstruction and the 1920s. --Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginiahttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/1121/thumbnail.jp
Hurtin’ Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South
No full textWhen Tammy Wynette sang D-I-V-O-R-C-E, she famously said she spelled out the hurtin\u27 words to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South. Ownby shows that it was common for both African Americans and whites to discuss family life in terms of crisis, but they reached very different conclusions about causes and solutions. In the civil rights period, many embraced an ideal of Christian brotherhood as a way of transcending divisions. Opponents of civil rights denounced brotherhoodism as a movement that undercut parental and religious authority. Others, especially in the African American community, rejected the idea of family crisis altogether, working to redefine family adaptability as a source of strength. Rather than attempting to define the experience of an archetypal southern family, Ownby looks broadly at contexts such as political and religious debates about divorce and family values, southern rock music, autobiographies, and more to reveal how people in the South used the concept of the family as a proxy for imagining a better future or happier past.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/1119/thumbnail.jp
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