{"product_id":"2026100008875-secondhand-the-mind-of-the-south","title":"The Mind Of The South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Remainder mark\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew books have so profoundly shaped the way Americans understand a region as W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South — a sweeping, unflinching autopsy of the Southern psyche that has lost none of its power since its original publication in 1941. Cash dissects the mythology, culture, and social psychology of the American South, tracing the roots of its distinctive identity through the legacies of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of industrialism, arguing that beneath the South's romantic self-image lay a complex tangle of violence, racial hierarchy, and willful self-deception.\n\nA masterwork of cultural criticism written with the fire of a Southern journalist who knew his subject from the inside, The Mind of the South blends historical analysis with penetrating social commentary to produce a portrait that is at once sympathetic and damning. Cash's prose crackles with intensity, unraveling the paradoxes of a society that prized honor and gentility while perpetuating brutal inequalities. Now presented with a new introduction by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, this edition invites a new generation of readers to reckon with the question that haunts every page: how much of that Southern mind endures today?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336812634331,"sku":"2026100008875-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3357eb20-5805-4cde-aba1-d759be12abd7.png?v=1789958491","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008875-secondhand-the-mind-of-the-south","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}