6. Fighting for the Lost Cause: The Confederate Battle Flag and Neo-Confederacy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: A Connected Fringe ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Neo-Confederacy and the New Dixie Manifesto 1
6. PART I. The Origins and Development of Neo-Confederacy and Its Tenets
7. 1. Neo-Confederacy and Its Conservative Ancestry 23
8. 2. The U.S. Civil War as a Theological War: Neo-Confederacy, Christian Nationalism, and Theology 50
9. 3. Gender, Sexuality, and Neo-Confederacy 76
10. 4. Neo-Confederacy, Culture, and Ethnicity: A White Anglo-Celtic Southern People 97
11. 5. Neo-Confederacy and the Understanding of Race 131
12. PART II. Practicing Neo-Confederacy
13. 6. Fighting for the Lost Cause: The Confederate Battle Flag and Neo-Confederacy 169
14. 7. Neo-Confederacy and Education 202
15. 8. Literature and Neo-Confederacy 226
16. 9. You Ain’t Just Whistlin’ Dixie: Neo-Confederacy in Music 253
17. 10. The Struggle for the Sons of Confederate Veterans: A Return to White Supremacy in the Early Twenty-First Century? 280
18. Afterword: Nationalizing Neo-Confederacy? 309
19. Contributors 317
20. Index 319