Images of Southern Culture

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I am attaching readings in the uploaded files (Images of readings are copied in reverse order) meaning that the pages will start at the very bottom of the page. I have to choose 6 of the 15 entries to write about. Each item should be individually marked 1-6, with each entry answering the 3 questions below.

Readings: Gender volume entries on Beauty, Cult of; Blues; Bubba, Image of; Country Music; Dissemblance, Culture of; Good Old Boys and Girls; “I Am A Man;” Independence, Manly; Mammy; Matriarchy, Myth of; NASCAR and Masculinity; Paternalism; Respectability, Politics of. Also, read the entry on Rednecks in the online Mississippi Encyclopedia: https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/rednecks/

Assignment #1. Due September 3

After reading those 15 entries, choose 6, and write a full paragraph or two on each of those 6 by answering the following three questions. The paper should be approximately 3-4 double-spaced pages.

1.What are the main elements of the image?
2. If is possible to tell, who created the image–the people depicted in the image or someone else? If it is possible to tell, for what purposes did they create and use the image?
3.Name and briefly describe a recent example of an individual or event that relate to this image, either something that is an example of the image, or something that criticized the image, or something that complicated the image and the issues connected to it.