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Contents for Volume 1

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Southern Cultures 1.4 (Winter 1995)
Southern Cultures 1.3 (Fall 1995)
Southern Cultures 1.2 (Summer 1995)
Southern Cultures 1.1 (Spring 1995)

Southern Cultures 1.4 (Summer 1995)

Front Porch
by John Shelton Reed

Essays

White Honor, Black Humor, and the Making of a Southern Style
by Johanna Nicol Shields

Southern Literature and Folk Humor
by William Ferris

Adventures in a “Foreign Country”: African American Humor and the South
by Trudier Harris

The Incredible Shrinking You-Know-What: Southern Women’s Humor
by Anne Goodwyn Jones

Fourteen Types of Ambiguity
by William Koon

“Damn, Brother! I Don’t Believe I’d A-Told That”: Humor and Southern Cultural Identity
by James C. Cobb

Reviews

Edited by Roy Blount Jr.'s
Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor
reviewed by Michael McFee

Joseph P. Reidy's
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880
reviewed by Mitchell Snay

Kevin Mulroy's
Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas
reviewed by James E. Crisp

Cinda K. Baldwin's
Great and Noble Jar: Traditional Stoneware of North Carolina
reviewed by Thomas S. Edwards

William G. McLoughlin's
After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880
reviewed by Rowena McClinton Ruff

William Walker's
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
reviewed by Henry Eskew

Robert P. Ingalls's
Urban Vigilantes in the New South: Tampa, 1882-1936
reviewed by Grace Elizabeth Hale

Amelia Wallace Vernon's
African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina
reviewed by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

Edited by Michael Carlebach and Eugene F. Provenzo Jr.'s
Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida
Augustus Burns

Glen Alyn's
I Say Me for a Parable--The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman
reviewed by David Evans

Karl G. Heider, editor
Images of the South: Constructing a Regional Culture on Film and Video
reviewed by Ruth A. Banes

Lewis P. Simpson's
The Fable of the Southern Writer
reviewed by Michael Kreyling

Tom Rankin's
Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta
reviewed by Susan Kidd

Howard Dorgan's
The Airwaves of Zion: Radio and Religion in Appalachia
reviewed by Ben Steelman

Estill Curtis Pennington's
A Southern Collection: Select Works from a Permanent Collection of Painting in the South Prepared for the Opening of the Morris Museum
reviewed by Carolina Mesrobian Hickman

South Polls Pass the Grits
by John Shelton Reed

Not Forgotten Yesterday a Total Stranger Called Me White Trash
by Tone Blevins

Poem Beautifully Landscaped Grounds Invite You Home Each Day
by Peter A. Coclanis

Southern Cultures 1.3 (Spring 1995)

Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson and John Shelton Reed

Essays

“How ’bout a hand for the Hog”: The Enduring Nature of the Swine as a Cultural Symbol in the South
by S. Jonathan Bass

“Sweet Home Alabama”: Southern Culture and the American Search for Community”
by Paul Harvey

Reflections on Southern Intellectuals
by Richard H. King

Sartoris Resartus
by Charles Joyner

Reviews

David M. Spear's
The Neugents: “Close to Home”
reviewed by Pamela Grundy

Richard J. Powell's
Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson
reviewed by Jessie Poesch

Jerald T. Milanich's
Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida
reviewed by H. Trawick Ward

James W. Covington's
The Seminoles of Florida
reviewed by Patricia B. Lerch

Shearer Davis Bowman's
Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
reviewed by Walter Hickel

Dorothy H. Brown and Barbara C. Ewell, editors
Louisiana Women Writers: New Essays and a Comprehensive Biography
reviewed by Margaret M. Geddy

Hugh T. Keenan, editor
Dearest Chums and Partners--Joel Chandler Harris’s Letters to His Children
reviewed by David B. Parker

John H. Ellis's
Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South
reviewed by Allan D. Charles

Jacqueline Goggin's
Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History
reviewed by Nell Irvin Painter

Walter F. Pitts's
The Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
reviewed by Jerrilyn McGregory

J. Mack Lofton Jr.'s
Voices from Alabama: A Twentieth-Century Mosaic
reviewed by Wayne Flynt

Lewis M. Killian's
Black and White: Reflections of a White Southern Sociologist
reviewed by Leslie Dunbar

Richard H. King's
Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom
reviewed by Charles W. Eagles

South Polls An Embattled Emblem
by John Shelton Reed

Southward, Ho! Political Culture and Present History
by Herbert J. Hartsook

Not Forgotten “A Poor Dinner It Was”: 1860 and the Politics of Barbecue

Southern Cultures 1.2 (Winter 1995)

Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson and John Shelton Reed

Essays

A Short History of Redneck: The Fashioning of a Southern White Masculine Identity
by Patrick Huber

“Millways” Remembered: A Conversation with Kenneth and Margaret Morland
by John Shelton Reed

The Law and the Code in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
by Robert O. Stephens

Saturday Night in Country Music: The Gospel According to Juke
by Stephen A. Smith and Jimmie N. Rogers

Reviews

Bill Bamburger's
The White Furniture Company of Mebane: The Final Months
reviewed by Peter Filene

Daniel H. Usner Jr.'s
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783
reviewed by Eric Hinderaker

Eric Foner's
Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction
reviewed by Wayne K. Durrill

John S. Hughes's
The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman
reviewed by Anastatia Sims

Lucinda H. MacKethan's
Daughters of Time: Creating Woman’s Voice in Southern Story
reviewed by Sarah Gordon

Mark Pendergrast's
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It
reviewed by Annette C. Wright

Robert E. Botsch's
Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association
reviewed by Bennett M. Judkins

Danny Lyon's
Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Charles W. Eagles's
Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
reviewed by Steven F. Lawson

Nancy Tatom Ammerman, editor
Southern Baptists Observed: Multiple Perspectives on a Changing Denomination
reviewed by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

Joseph S. Himes's
The South Moves Into Its Future: Studies in the Analysis and Prediction of Social Change
reviewed by Dwight B. Billings

Hunter James's
They Didn’t Put That on the Huntley-Brinkley! A Vagabond Reporter Encounters the New South
reviewed by Ferrel Guillory

Judy L. Larson and Cynthia Payne, editors
Graphic Arts and the South: Proceedings of the 1990 North American Print Conference
reviewed by Leo Mazow

South Polls Southern Manners
by John Shelton Reed

Southward, Ho! The Microfilm South
by David Moltke-Hansen

Not Forgotten The Southern Martial Tradition: A Memory
by Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Southern Cultures 1.1 (Fall 1994)

Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson and John Shelton

Essays

The Death of Southern Heroes: Historic Funerals of the South
by Charles Reagan Wilson

Seeing the Highlands, 1900-1939: Southwestern Virginia through the Lens of T. R. Phelps
by David Moltke-Hansen

From Il Trovatore to the Crazy Mountaineers: The Rise and Fall of Elevated Culture on WBT-Charlotte, 1922-1930
by Pamela Grundy

Paul Green and the Southern Literary Renaissance
by John Herbert Roper

Reviews

Exhibition at the Museum of the Confederacy
Embattled Emblem: The Army of Northern Virginia Battle Flag, 1861 to the Present
reviewed by Edward L. Ayers

Kathryn E. Holland Braund's
Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815
reviewed by Peter H. Wood

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's
Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century
reviewed by Clarence E. Walker

Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon, editors
Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization
reviewed by Karen Trahan Leathem

Richard Westmacott's
African American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South
reviewed by John Rashford

John Michael Vlach's
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
reviewed by Thomas W. Hanchett

Winthrop D. Jordan's
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy
reviewed by Charles Joyner

William A. Link's
Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930
reviewed by Stephen Kantrowitz

Film by Anne Johnson
Step Back Cindy: Oldtime Dancing in Southwest Virginia
reviewed by Wayne Martin

John M. Dunaway, editor
Exiles and Fugitives: The Letters of Jacques and Raîssa Maritain, Allen Tate, and Carolina Gordon
reviewed by Alphonse Vinh

Anne Firor Scott, editor
Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women
reviewed by Jacqueline Jones

Virginia Bernhard, Betty Brandon, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Theda Perue, editors
Southern Women: Histories and Identities
reviewed by Kathleen C. Berkeley

Film by California Newsreel
We Shall Overcome
reviewed by Trudier Harris

Robert A. Pratt's
The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89
reviewed by George W. Noblit

Owen W. Gilman Jr.'s
Vietnam and the Southern Imagination
reviewed by Melton McLaurin

South Polls Images of Southern Women
by John Shelton Reed

Southward, Ho! Unlocking Photographs
by Ellen Garrison

Not Forgotten Incident at the Depot
by Paul Green

 

 

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