Tag: Victoria E. Bynum

  • Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2010-05-26 Victoria E. Bynum, Moderator and Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In recent weeks, The Family Origins of Vernon Dahmer, Civil Rights Activist, by Yvonne Bivins and Wilmer Watts Backstrom, published December 6, 2009 on Renegade South, has…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott] H-Net Reviews May, 2010 3 pages Paul D. Escott, Reynolds Professor of History Wake Forest University “Few histories,” writes Victoria Bynum, “are buried faster or deeper than those of political and social dissenters” (p. 148). The Long Shadow…

  • Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-03-17 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term “passing.” Most of…

  • A conversation with Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies, discusses three Unionist strongholds in the South, Q: There seems no…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 240 pp. 6.125 x 9.25, 9 illus. 1 map, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3381-0 Large Print ISBN: 978-0-8078-7909-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In The Long Shadow of the…