Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction Book

Foreword: A Connected Fringe James W. Loewen ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Neo-Confederacy and the New Dixie Manifesto Euan Hague Edward H. Sebesta Heidi Beirich 1

Part I The Origins and Development of Neo-Confederacy and Its Tenets

1 Neo-Confederacy and Its Conservative Ancestry Euan Hague Edward H. Sebesta 23

2 The U.S. Civil War as a Theological War: Neo-Confederacy, Christian Nationalism, and Theology Edward H. Sebesta Euan Hague 50

3 Gender, Sexuality, and Neo-Confederacy Heidi Beirich Kevin Hicks 76

4 Neo-Confederacy, Culture, and Ethnicity: A White Anglo-Celtic Southern People Euan Hague Edward H. Sebesta 97

5 Neo-Confederacy and the Understanding of Race Euan Hague Edward H. Sebesta 131

Part II Practicing Neo-Confederacy

6 Fighting for the Lost Cause: The Confederate Battle Flag and Neo-Confederacy Gerald R. Webster Jonathan I. Leib 169

7 Neo-Confederacy and Education Euan Hague 202

8 Literature and Neo-Confederacy Kevin Hicks 226

9 You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie: Neo-Confederacy in Music Jon Bohland Brian Tongier 253

10 The Struggle for the Sons of Confederate Veterans: A Return to White Supremacy in the Early Twenty-First Century? Heidi Beirich 280

Afterword: Nationalizing Neo-Confederacy? Euan Hague Edward H. Sebesta 309

Contributors 317

Index 319