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Southern Cultures 10.4 (Winter 2004)
Southern Cultures 10.3 (Fall 2004)
Southern Cultures 10.2 (Summer 2004)
Southern Cultures 10.1 (Spring 2004)

Southern Cultures 10.4 (Winter 2004)

Front Porch by Harry L. Watson
“Who could miss the blood-pounding rush of events that awful spring, with the bands playing, the girls cheering, elders looking proud and tearful, as scowls of disapproval already darkened against ‘tories’ and shirkers?”

Interview Robert Penn Warren: “Mad for Poetry”
interviewed by William R. Ferris
“I said, ‘Couldn’t we go a little slower?’ And he said, ‘With a white man sitting in this front seat with me? You won’t catch me going less than ninety miles an hour. Mister, you’ll just have to take it. I’m saving your life.’”

Essays

• “A World Properly Put Together”
  Environmental Knowledge in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain
  by Albert Way
  
  “It has been more than seven years since the publication of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, and it has become nothing short of a phenomenon.”
  

• King Solomon’s Dilemma—and the Confederacy’s
  by Eugene D. Genovese
  
  “If southerners did not live up to Christian standards in their daily lives and, in particular, bring slavery up to Abramic standards, they warned, a wrathful God would use the heathen Yankees, as He had used heathens of yore, to smite his Chosen People.”

Mason-Dixon Lines Between Assassinations and Black Maid
poetry by Alan Shapiro
“What was your last name, where did you live?”

Not Forgotten A Cajun Traiteur: Faith Healing on the Bayou
by Karen Yochim
“In southwestern Louisiana, where the slow running, gumbo-colored bayous and the incredibly wide-spreading mythical oaks mingle with the soft, sultry air to protect and comfort the spirit, it’s easy to believe in faith healing.”

Books

• Timothy B. Tyson
  Blood Done Sign My Name
  reviewed by Fred Hobson
  
  “Ten-year-old Timothy Tyson, of course, wasn't aware of all the consequences—or the context—of Henry Marrow's murder at the time, and his family left Oxford shortly afterward.”
  

• Stokely Carmichael, with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
  Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
  reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
  
  “In August 1967 the director of the FBI urged his agents to ‘prevent the rise of a messiah who would unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement.’"
  

• William Powers
  Tar Heel Catholics
  reviewed by John Quinterno
  
  “John Monk, a physician from Newton Grove, converted to Catholicism after receiving a package of medical supplies wrapped in a copy of a sermon given by the Archbishop of New York, and went on to become the state’s most effective evangelist.”
  

• Jim Carrier
  A Traveler’s Guide to the Civil Rights Movement
  reviewed by S. Willoughby Anderson
  
  “The gripping historical narrative will inspire travelers to chart their own course.”

About the Contributors

Southern Cultures 10.3 (Fall 2004)

Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Imagine hanging out in Harvard Square wearing a sunbonnet stamped, ‘It’s a southern thing. You wouldn’t understand.’”

Essays

• “Fighting Whiskey and Immorality” at Auburn
  The Politics of Southern Football, 1919-1927
  by Andrew Doyle
  
  “President Spright Dowell of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, today’s Auburn University, had raised admission standards and improved the professional qualifications of the faculty. . . . Yet this solid record was overshadowed by a raging public controversy sparked by the decline of the once-powerful Auburn football program.”
  
  
• Shellburne Thurber’s Southern Home
  by Lee Zacharias
  
  “‘I never really knew my mother very well and I think that I was trying to figure out who she was. Since she wasn’t around anymore, the only things I could photograph were the places that she’d lived in.’”
  

• Feeding the Jewish Soul in the Delta Diaspora
  by Marcie Cohen Ferris
  
  “Throughout the nation food strongly defines ethnic and regional identity. But in the South, and especially in the Delta, a region scarred by war, slavery, and the aftermath of reconstruction and segregation, food is especially important.”

Mason-Dixon Lines The Last Lap of the Daytona 500
poetry by Adrian Blevins
“…there’s now the death of Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt,
Dale Earnhardt.”

Not Forgotten Anatomy of a Quilt
The Gee’s Bend Freedom Quilting Bee
by Nancy Scheper-Hughes

“Something akin to a bitter culture war took place each time I would bring out a sample of those decidedly un-Yankee Gee’s Bend quilts. ‘They don’t look right,’ we were told. ‘Who would want to sleep under something like this?’”

Books

• George Garrett
  Southern Excursions
  reviewed by Sam Pickering
  
  “George Garrett’s presence turns dark rooms brighter than rainbows. He makes people smile, and for moments worry grinds slower and life seems more gift than burden. In George’s company scoffers become appreciators.”
  

• J. Mills Thornton III
  Dividing Lines
  reviewed by Ralph E. Luker
  
  “To understand the Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham’s dramatic street confrontations, and the struggle for the enfranchisement of Selma’s African Americans, Thornton insists, we must immerse ourselves in the minute details of local politics before and after these events.”
  

• David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis
  The South, the Nation, and the World
  reviewed by Gavin Wright
  
  “Those slave traders and slave drivers were not in it for their health, and slavery continues to cast a long shadow over the region as well as the nation. What forces, motives and circumstances led southerners to make these choices, and what were the implications?”

• Barbara Ransby
  Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
  reviewed by Charles Payne
  
  “I used to give a speech which began by claiming that Ella Baker invented the 1960s. That’s not as crazy as it sounds.”

About the Contributors

Southern Cultures 10.2 (Summer 2004)

Front Porch by Harry L. Watson
“Some southern traditions don’t pretend to be liberating.”

Interview John Dollard: Caste and Class Revisited
interviewed by William R. Ferris

“That whole church would be a riot of the most beautiful songs. To be in the middle of it was for me an ecstasy, one of the greatest experiences of my life. I found it heavenly and unbelievably delightful, freeing and liberating. An odd thing about it was that the singing would never completely die down.”

Essays

• Zelda Sayre, Belle
  by Linda Wagner-Martin
  
  “There are few more memorable wives in twentieth-century American culture than Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, who was married to the successful young author F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
  
• O Brother, What Next?
  Making Sense of the Folk Fad
  by Benjamin Filene
  
  “Think of the tale of Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and an enraged Alan Lomax trying to pin Dylan’s manager to the ground while Pete Seeger hunted for an ax to cut the cables.”
  

Mason-Dixon Lines Aspiration and Varieties of Religious Experience
two poems by Lynn Powell

“I saw God, my son once told me. He lives in a field of snow.
What could you see? Just snow. And footprints.”

Up Beat Down South John Henry
“Take this hammer, it won’t kill you”
by John Douglas

“John Henry and his shaker apparently kept hammering and drilling, hour after hour, while the steam-powered drill got tangled up in the hard rock. Years later, a hammer with the initials ‘J. H.’ was found in the tunnel.”

Southern Voices What is Progress?
Desegregating an Indian School in Robeson County, North Carolina
as told to Malinda Maynor by James Arthur Jones

“But I could walk in the classrooms, and I could name ninety percent of those kids’ parents, because I taught a lot of their parents. If a problem surfaced, I said, ‘Do you want me to talk to your mother and daddy about you?’”

Not Forgotten Globalization, Southern Style
Ways of Dixie Win in Latin America
by Helen Bullitt Lowry
with an introduction by James C. Cobb

“And duels still settle matters of honor between gentlemen.”

Film Cold Mountain
by Edward D. C. Campbell Jr.

“This is a world in complete turmoil—a civilization falling to pieces—and one seldom so strongly presented in Civil War films. And yet, in the end, there is a regeneration of southern family and community.”

Books

• Rob Amberg
  Sodom Laurel Album
  reviewed by Cary Fowler
  
  “How unusual these days to hold a book whose size, layout, typeface--everything down to the texture of the hardcover (reminiscent of old photo and record albums)--has been thought through and woven together with such craftsmanship.”
  

• Trudier Harris
  Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
  reviewed by Melton A. McLaurin
  
  “Her conclusions, a mixture of experience and hope, recognize the changes that have occurred in her native region, the racial tensions that remain, and the hope for a better tomorrow.”
  

• Suzanne Lebsock
  A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
  reviewed by S. Willoughby Anderson
  
  “Intricately constructed from rural county court records and newspaper clippings, Murder in Virginia reads like the best of crime novels.”

About the Contributors

Southern Cultures 10.1 (Spring 2004)


Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson

“Maybe firecrackers don’t mean anything but a hell of a good time.”

Interview Alice Walker: “I know what the earth says.”
interviewed by William R. Ferris

“I love B. B. because he loves women. They can be mean, they can be bitchy, they can be carrying on, but you can tell he really loves them. He’s full of love. I would like to be the literary B.B. King.”

Essays

• Fireworking Down South
  by Brooks Blevins
  
  “‘I need a monkey driving a car, one hen laying eggs, two cuckoos, a fairy with a flower, one climbing panda, one cock crowing at dawn, and whatever we’ve got in the way of a Jupiter’s fire or a thunder blast or a big bear.’”
  

• “All Wrought Up”
  The Apocalyptic South of McKendree Robbins Long
  by Lee Smith and Hal Crowther
  with a poem by Robert Hill Long
  
  “We often had dates for the revival, since there wasn’t anything else to do in that town, or anyplace else to go, and that oftentimes your date would be holding your hand while you both got all wrought up together. So there was a sexual thing going on there, too.”

• The Grand Ole Opry and the Urban South
  by Louis M. Kyriakoudes
  
  “‘Lord, Lord, you ought to take a ride, get in a Ford with a donnie by your side.’”

Mason-Dixon Lines Mill Village and The Stretch-Out
two poems by Ron Rash

“I was only seventeen, a girl
who still could trust a suit and smile.”

Not Forgotten A Southern Memory
by Robert Flournoy

“‘Yessir, pretty fine shootin’, especially as it appears these birds were flying upside down.’”

Books

• Shawn Wilson, Editor
  Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson
  reviewed by J. Todd Moye
  
  “Wedding couples beam. Bathing beauties strut their stuff. A homecoming queen waves from the back of a convertible. A couple of motorcycle riders simply show off in one of the most evocative portraits I have ever seen.”

• René Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy
  Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole
  reviewed by Bryan Giemza
  
  “I don’t intend to suggest that sexual matters are always beyond the pale. No, the sin of it is simply this: the claims in the book are very thin indeed.”
  

• Karen L. Cox
  Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
  reviewed by Gaines M. Foster
  
  “Women, not men, shaped the South’s memory of the war and thereby perpetuated a ‘Confederate culture’ that celebrated mainly the veterans but also the women of the wartime generation.”
  

• James R. Goff Jr.
  Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel
  reviewed by James Parrish
  
  “Southern gospel is as important to America’s musical and cultural heritage as are jazz, blues, and country.”
  

• Earl and Merle Black
  The Rise of Southern Republicans
  and
  David Leege, Ken Wald, Brain Kruger, and Paul Meller
  The Politics of Cultural Differences
  reviewed by John Quinterno
  
  “Republican campaigns that skillfully employed race-based symbols like those linked to urban crime, school busing, and ‘big government’ often managed both to depress turnout among white southern democrats and prompt defections to the GOP.”

About the Contributors