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Will the South rise again?

Daniel M. Harrison (Lander) and Larry W. Isaac (Vanderbilt): Social Class and the Southern Civil Rights Movement. From American Studies Journal, a special issue on The South in the Age of Obama, including James C. Cobb (Georgia): Before and After: The 2008 Election and the Second “Solid South”; Daniel P. Franklin (Georgia State): Will the South Rise Again? Monochromatic Politics and Political Clout in the Modern South; Glenn T. Eskew (Georgia State): Barack Obama, John Lewis, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Struggle; and Dorit Wagner (Mainz): The American South: From Civil Rights Struggle to Civil Rights Tourism. Liberation as death sentence: The casualties of the Civil War should include the many former slaves who died in an epidemic after the Emancipation Proclamation, writes Jim Downs. A review of Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster. Even supporters of North Carolina's gay-marriage ban know it won't last 20 years; Ed Winstead reflects on the South, the past, and when legislation plans its own obsolescence. A review of The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction by Scott Romine.