Table of Contents
The South in the Age of Obama
01
Introduction
02
Before and After: The 2008 Election and the Second “Solid South”
03
Will the South Rise Again? Monochromatic Politics and Political Clout
in the Modern South
04
Barack Obama, John Lewis, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Struggle
05
The American South: From Civil Rights Struggle to
Civil Rights Tourism
06
From David Walker to President Obama:
Tropes of the Founding Fathers in African American Discourses of Democracy, or The Legacy of Ishmael
07
Race, Rights, and Resistance in Southern Literature in the Age of Obama
08
Raymond Andrews as Griot: Privileging Southern Black Communities through Oral Storytelling and Cultural History
09
South Carolina’s Edgefield District:
An Early International Crossroads of Clay
10
List of Contributors