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A.P.
Ms. Coco
1001 English
05 April 2016
Annotated Bibliography

Orey, Byron D'Andra. "White Racial Attitudes And Support For The Mississippi
State Flag." American Politics Research 32.1 (2004): 102-116. Peace
Research Abstracts. Web.

31 Mar. 2016.

The text was written due to the uproar of the confederate flag not
being changed. The decision was made to keep the confederate flag as the
representation for Mississippi. This text shows statistics about how white
Americans feel about the flag. It also shows how African Americans feel about
the flag. I am going to use the statistics and the information about the
referendum in my research paper. The author is affiliated with the University
of Nebraska, Lincoln.

OREY, BYRON D'ANDRA, et al. "White Support For Racial Referenda In The
Deep South." Politics

& Policy 39.4 (2011): 539-558. Academic

Search Complete. Web. 31 Mar. 2016.

The research examines the two referenda in the south, which were
categorized as anti-black. The research also shows that majority of white
voters displayed a greater anti-black type voting behavior in the larger
black populations and more urbanized environments. The reading has

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findings that challenge the thoughts that the racial threat isnt as
prominent as before in urbanized areas. I am going to use the information
about the confederate flag in 1894, and the information regarding the 1993
lawsuit brought by the NAACP about the flag. The authors are Byron DAndra
Orey Jackson State University, L. Marvin Overby University of Missouri,
Peter K. Hatemi Pennsylvania State University, and Baodong Liu University
of Utah.

John Shelton, Reed. "The Banner That Won't Stay Furled." Southern
Cultures 8.1 (2002): 76-

100. America: History and Life with Full Text.

Web. 31 Mar. 2016.

This research paper shows that Mississippi had a different outcome for
changing the confederate flag than South Carolina and Georgia because
Mississippi had a vote on it. South Carolina and Georgia had protestors that
pushed the politicians into changing the flag. Majority of Mississippis voters
that sided for the confederate flag did this because they were still for
segregationist symbolism, but mainly because it is a defiance of the federal
government and outsider meddling. The following sentence, Although Foote
and many other defenders of the Confederate heritage took pains to distance
themselves from white supremacists, they found themselves allied, willy nilly,
with folks like a white "Nationalist" named Richard Barrett, who argued that
"Negroes, communists and Japanese" are trying to take over Mississippi and
"the Confederate flag is there to signify defiance of oppression." (Barrett also
claimed that the new flag was modeled after that of Communist China,
although the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an old-time civil-

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rights organization, protested, more plausibly, that the new flag resembled
the first national flag of the Confederacy.) will be dissected and used in my
paper. The author was the professor of sociology and the director of the
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Davenport, Guy. "The Confederate Battle Flag." Callaloo 1 (2001): 51. Project
MUSE. Web. 5

Apr. 2016.

This text focuses on discussing the symbols of different countries and

areas that were all unappealing to certain groups of people. This text is
against the confederate flag because there are instances when he calls
fraternities that have this symbol childish and mindless. Newman also talks
about the history of the confederate states in a non-biased manner, informing
the reader on the confederate flags origin and curator. I will use this essay to
write about the history of the confederate flag and support my text. Guy
Davenport is a native of South Carolina, a Professor Emeritus at the
University of Kentucky, a MacArthur Fellow, a Rhodes Scholar, a member of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the author of 46 books.

Leib, Jonathan I, and Gerald R. (Gerald Raymond) Webster. "Black, White Or

Green?: The

Confederate Battle Emblem And The 2001 Mississippi State

Flag Referendum."Southeastern Geographer 3

MUSE. Web. 5 Apr.

(2012): 299. Project

2016.

This article talks about the debate over whether or not it is okay to
display the confederate flag in public places. Many people believe the

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arguments coincide more with racial discrepancies. The article also talks
about where the controversies took place. I would use the article for its
statistics. The authors are Dr. Jonathan I. Leib and Dr. Gerald R. Webster. Dr.
Leib is an Associate professor and Geography Program Director in the Dept.
of Political Science and Geography at Old Dominion University. Dr. Webster is
a Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Geography at the University of Wyoming
in Laramie, Wyoming.

Best, Wallace. "Mama And The Confederate Flag." Callaloo 1 (2001):

14. Project MUSE. Web. 5

Apr. 2016.

This text is about the authors experience with his mother when the
topic of the confederate flag was mentioned. His mother told a story of how
she never saw the confederate flag due to the harsh laws of segregation. She
was thankful for not seeing it because majority of the blacks who did, were
punished for stepping out of line. The author also talks about his feelings for
the confederate flag and his mothers wishes for racial peace. I would use this
text to quote bits and pieces of the stories and personal encounters with
racism in the past when dealing with the confederate flag. The author is
Wallace Best, an assistant professor in the Dept. of Religious Studies at the
University of Virginia. He recently received the PhD in American history at the
Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was born in North Carolina.