| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South. By Tara McPherson. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xii, 318 pp. Cloth, $64.95, ISBN 0-8223-3029-6. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-3040-7.)

In Reconstructing Dixie, Tara McPherson focuses on the interconnections among race, gender, and place in order to provide "new ways of feeling southern that more fully come to terms with the history of racial oppression and racial connections" (p. 8). McPherson approaches this study primarily by deconstructing popular culture from the 1930s to the present. While she also critiques works of historians, she is at her best when she lends her talents to analyzing images of the South, and in particular images of the southern lady, in novels, memoirs, television, and motion pictures.

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