
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
This week we will be talking Scott Romine, author of The Zombie Memes of Dixie (2024, UGA Press). The book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South.
Approaching these propositions as memes Scott argues that many of them developed in defense of slavery and evolved in its aftermath to continue to form a southern group whose “way of life” naturalized an emergent regime of segregation.
4.8
167167 ratings
This week we will be talking Scott Romine, author of The Zombie Memes of Dixie (2024, UGA Press). The book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South.
Approaching these propositions as memes Scott argues that many of them developed in defense of slavery and evolved in its aftermath to continue to form a southern group whose “way of life” naturalized an emergent regime of segregation.
165 Listeners
1,554 Listeners
23 Listeners
4,007 Listeners
901 Listeners
3,744 Listeners
254 Listeners
984 Listeners
685 Listeners
369 Listeners
2,911 Listeners
32,055 Listeners
325 Listeners
4,078 Listeners
282 Listeners