Reassessing the 1930s South is a collection of essays by art critics, historians, and literary scholars that seek to move beyond the overused stereotypes of the region during the Great Depression. Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South as a region that was either inhabited by a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted or a place that was abnormally isolated from the rest of the nation. Its residents, according to the first version of this stereotype, were so beaten down by decades of insurmountable deprivation that they dragged down an...