{"id":47218,"date":"2016-05-31T23:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47218"},"modified":"2016-05-31T23:27:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T23:27:44","slug":"not-so-solid-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47218","title":{"rendered":"Not-So-Solid South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tritonmag.com\/not-so-solid-south\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Not-So-Solid South<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tritonmag.com\" target=\"_blank\">Triton<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, San Diego Alumni<br \/>\n2016-05-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sherilyn-reus-58a86098\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sherilyn Reus &#8217;16<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tritonmag.com\/not-so-solid-south\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tritonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ONTHESHELF_freestateofjones.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Historian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vikki_bynum\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Bynum<\/a>, M.A. \u201979, Ph.D. \u201987, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a> myth-buster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Folklore is deeply embedded in American culture\u2014whether told at the dinner table, around the campfire or just before bedtime, tall tales and legends about the nation\u2019s history have the power to build a common identity and unify its people. For <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vikki_bynum\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Bynum<\/a>, M.A. \u201979, Ph.D. \u201987, American folklore is not just an opportunity for a great story, but a chance to look more closely at the finer threads of our heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough for a noted historian of the 19th-century <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">American South<\/a>, Bynum was born and raised mostly in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a>. Her father, however, was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jones_County%2C_Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Jones County, Miss.<\/a>, a location steeped in history and primarily known for its anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\">Confederate<\/a> rebellion during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>. For Bynum, who gravitated toward history throughout college, the dynamics and repercussions of the uprising were captivating. \u201cHere was a story that countered conventional images of the Civil War and ordinary white Southerners,\u201d she says. After hearing a plethora of different sides to the story, Bynum was convinced that Jones County was begging for a deeper historical analysis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/tritonmag.com\/not-so-solid-south\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not-So-Solid South Triton University of California, San Diego Alumni 2016-05-05 Sherilyn Reus &#8217;16 Historian Victoria Bynum, M.A. \u201979, Ph.D. \u201987, is a Civil War myth-buster. Folklore is deeply embedded in American culture\u2014whether told at the dinner table, around the campfire or just before bedtime, tall tales and legends about the nation\u2019s history have the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,1459,20],"tags":[23943,23944,23945,1453,1454],"class_list":["post-47218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-usa","tag-sherilyn-reus","tag-triton","tag-triton-magazine","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47220,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47218\/revisions\/47220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}