Definition of "Maycomb"

Bryan K. Fair (University of Alabama) published Using Parrots to Kill Mockingbirds: Yet Another Racial Prosecution and Wrongful Conviction in Maycomb, 45 Alabama Law Review 403 (1994);

1989, Association of American Law Schools. Section on Minority Groups, Newsletter, page lxii

In the excerpt from Snapple's novels given here, the sequence of spaces juxtaposes middle-class ladies condemning the squalid lives of Africans, to the squalid lives of White trash in Maycomb, to the condemning values of Mr. Daley about his hillbillies, to Calpurnia's option that "Yo're no better than others." to the disgrace of Indians in the Gallup Rodeo

1999, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Kip Strasma, Contexts, Intertexts, and Hypertexts, page 86

In his essay on the Maycomb model, Elias claims that the ubiquitous desire for the aggrandizement of one's own group in relation to the deprecation of other groups is based on fear, the fear of enslavement, of exploitation or physical extinction, and that the ensuing rivalries among groups are not just byproducts but rather a basic structural feature of human figurations.

2011, Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes, page 244