Look Away The U.S. South in New World Studies

• Main Authors: Smith, Jon, Cohn, Deborah, Pease, Donald E, Handley, George B
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Duke University Press 2004
• Series: New Americanists
• Subjects: HISTORY; North America; SOCIAL SCIENCE

Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States—including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade—are common to most of the Am...