![]() ![]() He earned his BA and MA degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso and his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin. ![]() Wilson was director of the Southern Studies academic program from 1991 to 1998 and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture from 1998 to 2007. ![]() Structured in three parts, The Southern Way of Life begins in the colonial era, when complex ideas of “southern civilization” rooted in slaveholding and agrarianism dominated, and continues into the current century and the rise of a modern, multicultural “southern living.”Ĭharles Reagan Wilson is professor emeritus of history and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he taught from 1981 to 2014. ![]() “The South is a rich tapestry woven with contestations, contingencies, and change.” “The concept of a distinctively southern way of life is as enduring as it is disputed,” Wilson said. Surveying three centuries of southern regional consciousness across many genres, disciplines, and cultural strains, he challenges prior portrayals of the region with a vision of southern culture that has always been plural, dynamic, and complicated by race and class. In the work Wilson explores how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region’s identity. On January 11, 2023, Charles Reagan Wilson discussed his new book The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South as part of the History Is Lunch series. ![]()
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