Intemperate Men, Spiteful Women, and Jefferson Davis: Northern Views of the Defeated South

Concrete Expressionism: Harley Earl, William France, and NASCAR Aesthetics

“…Craig Thompson Friend is the exception that does undertake an evaluation of the particulars, contending that there are specific components of the NASCAR experience that are attractive to a southern clientele. He connects NASCAR to the robust literature regarding the postbellum southern male ego and the concern that perhaps “all the talk about the Southern gentleman's strength and chivalry had been mere bravado” (Silber 620). Friend links NASCAR to the robust southern interest in hunting and football, in so doing substantiating the conventional impression of NASCAR as partially sublimated testosterone: “[car] racing, competing in football, making a big kill—such activities were the early twentieth century's equivalent of proving manhood in antebellum dueling or sharpshooting” (xix).…”