The American South in a Global World

The American South in a Global World, edited by James L. Peacock, Harry L. Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews, sets out to bust the myth of "the legendary South of two isolated and homogenous races" and argues that the American South, though transformed by the forces of globalization, continues to display distinct regional qualities (p. 1). In fact, the authors stress the South's regional racial and economic heterogeneity by examining "globalism's localisms" in sites as diverse as the factory, the mining town, and the research and industrial centers of the urban South.