Your Heritage Will Still Remain: Racial Identity and Mississippi’s Lost Cause

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Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians, black and white, constructed their social identity within the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict and ending within the late nineteenth century. Michael J. Goleman focuses primarily on how Mississippians considered their place: as Americans, as Confederates, or as both. In the course of secession, white Mississippians held firm to an American identity and easily transformed it into a Confederate identity venerating their version of American heritage. After the war, black Mississippians tried to etch their place throughout the Union and as a part of transformed American society. Yet they continually faced white supremacist hatred and backlash. All through Reconstruction, radical transformations throughout the state forced all Mississippians to embrace, deny, or rethink their standing throughout the Union.

Tracing the evolution of Mississippians’ social identity from 1850 in the course of the end of the century uncovers why white Mississippians felt the want to create the Lost Cause legend. With personal letters, diaries and journals, newspaper editorials, traveler’s accounts, memoirs, reminiscences, and personal histories as its sources, Your Heritage Will Still Remain offers insights into the white creation of Mississippi’s Lost Cause and into the battle for black social identity. It goes on to turn how these cultural hallmarks continue to have an effect on the state even now.

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