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Southern Cultures
11.4 (Winter 2005)
Southern Cultures 11.3
(Fall 2005)
Southern Cultures
11.2 (Summer 2005)
Southern Cultures
11.1 (Spring 2005)
Southern Cultures 11.4
(Winter 2005)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Lynching and mayhem are not the only dimensions of southern
history worth preserving.”
Essays
- From Smiles to Miles
Delta Air Lines Flight Attendants and Southern Hospitality
by Drew Whitelegg
“In 1965 Braniff introduced the ‘air strip,’ in
which a flight attendant disrobed bit-by-bit during the flight. Delta
preferred coquetry to crudity.”
- And the Dead Shall Rise: An Overview
by Steve Oney
“In the 1913 South the novelty of a white jury convicting
a white man largely on the word of a black man was enormous. Yet even
so, it was only in the trial’s aftermath that the deeper and more
volatile issues came to the fore.”
- Teaching Southern Lit in Black and White
by Michael Kreyling
“I had to stop. It wasn’t funny, and the bravura failed
to lift any literary hearts. In this reading in this place, these words,
whatever I might think about their literary merits, described white
men on horseback with dogs hunting a defenseless black man on foot.”
- Mason-Dixon Lines “Guest Quarters at the Continuing Care Retirement
Community”
poetry by Ruth Moose
“Someone, sometime
must have made biscuits…”
Southern Voices
- Forty Years after the War on Poverty
Billy E. Barnes, interviewed by Elizabeth Gritter
“There are times when you come upon a scene and everything
is right. It tells a story. It has a center of interest. It has emotion.
It has people in it who are beautiful people—and I don’t
mean Hollywood beautiful.”
Not Forgotten
- Martin Luther King and the Southern Dream of Freedom
by Timothy B. Tyson
“Southern culture, properly considered, actually more or less
rules the world.”
Books
- John Lane
Chattooga: Descending Into the Myth of Deliverance River
reviewed by Timothy Silver
“Billy Redden, the iconic ‘banjo boy’ who will
ever be remembered for playing with Drew Ballinger on the hit song ‘Dueling
Banjos,’ now mops floors at a local Huddle House and has a second
job at a barbecue restaurant named—as luck would have it—‘Oinkers.’
- Anthony Dunbar, editor (foreward by Jimmy Carter)
Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent
reviewed by E. M. Beck
“While white southerners are often stereotyped as extreme
right-wingers and hard-rock Bible thumpers, the southern progressive
tradition of dissent is alive.”
- Jeannette Keith
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight, 000
reviewed by Jonathan F. Phillips
“What inspired draft resistance in the rural South?”
About the Contributors
Southern Cultures 11.3
(Fall 2005)
Letters to the Editors
Who Is a Southerner?
“‘You seem to be saying that The Beverly Hillbillies and
The Dukes of Hazard types are the real southerners.’”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Appearing in thirty million copies worldwide and almost two
hundred foreign editions, the story of Rhett and Scarlett has conveyed
something irresistible to readers almost everywhere, surely including
many who couldn’t tell Stone Mountain from Mount Rushmore.”
Essays
- Teaching Gone with the Wind in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
by Mart Stewart
“‘There were a lot of Scarletts in Vietnam after 1975.’”
- “An Oasis of Order”
The Citadel, the 1960s, and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
by Alex Macaulay
“Pat Conroy, a 1967 Citadel graduate, recounts the horrors
of his freshman year in gruesome detail. In My Losing Season, Conroy
describes the plebe system he endured as ‘mind-numbing, savage,
unrelenting, and base.’”
Photo Essay
- Friday Night Heroes
Small-Town Wrestling in Tennessee
by Joseph Shay
“The crowd was at a fever pitch, seemingly waiting for an
excuse to tear something apart. Would it be me?”
Mason-Dixon Lines
- “Shooting the Breeze” and “Chiaroscuro”
two poems by Edison Jennings
“Only later would I learn
about the great-winged vultures the long-gone pharaohs deified…”
Beyond Grits and Gravy
- Queuing up for Q in London’s East End
by John Shelton Reed
“He remembers seeing a man from the Church of Christ cooking
a steer with some apparatus involving chicken wire, an oil-rig pipe,
and a hole in the ground. He also remembers playing cowboys and Indians
with a young Billy Clinton.”
Not Forgotten
- Reimagining the South
by William F. Winter
“Now it is time to talk about what we are called on to do
in this latter day South. Now it is time for us to have an accounting
of just where we are.”
Books
- Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh, Editors
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture
reviewed by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
“Soon after the Civil War Americans understood that the way
they remembered the Civil War would define their nation.”
- James L. Peacock, Harry L. Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews, Editors
The American South in a Global World
James C. Cobb and William Stueck, Editors
Globalization and the American South
Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn, Editors
Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies
reviewed by David A. Davis
“Perhaps the question to ponder now is how will the South
change the globe?”
- Robert F. Pace
Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South
reviewed by Peter S. Carmichael
“These young men, facing an unpredictable future, were wrought
with anxiety and desperate for their families and friends to see them
as men.”
About the Contributors
Southern Cultures 11.2 (Summer 2005)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“The chances for great deeds are not limited to the dead. As
often with a wisecrack as a bugle, they call us from the present life
as well.”
Essays
- “The Dread Void of Uncertainty”
Naming the Dead in the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
“More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other American
wars combined up to Vietnam. Death touched nearly every American, North
and South, of the Civil War era, yet the unanticipated scale of the
destruction meant that at least half these dead remained unidentified.”
- Promoting the Gothic South
by Rebecca C. McIntyre
“Taking a boat ride down a swampy southern river was a thrilling
escape into the unknown, a peep show of the grotesque, a blending of
the realistic and the fantastic, which thrilled in a strange and disturbing
way.”
Photo Essay
- Keepers of the Southern Byways
by Brian Jolley
“The greatest influence on these portraits came in the form
of Charles Kuralt, the late journalist who humbly traveled the road
and made all those he met heroic.”
Mason-Dixon Lines
- Praying with George Herbert in Late Winter
poetry by Tom Andrews
“Outside, light swarms
and particularizes the snow …”
Up Beat Down South
- Jazz Funeral: A Living Tradition
by Angelo P. Coclanis and Peter A. Coclanis
“On a sweaty Saturday morning in late October 2004, a jazz
funeral was held in New Orleans. Lloyd Washington had performed off
and on in the postwar period in one of the many groups known as the
Ink Spots that grew out of the original 1930s group of that name.”
Not Forgotten
- Remembering Harry Golden: Food, Race, and Laughter
by Tom Hanchett
“‘I have a positive cure for this mental aberration
called anti-Semitism. I believe that if we gave each anti-Semite an
onion roll with lox and cream cheese, some chopped chicken liver with
a nice radish, and a good piece of brisket of beef with a few potato
pancakes, he’d soon give up all this nonsense.’”
Books
- K. Michael Prince
Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate
Flag
reviewed by John M. Coski
“‘The flag is, in its very essence, irresolute and contradictory.
Wiping it out, eliminating it from view, would be just as wrong as hoisting
it atop the highest flag-pole in the center of town--if only because
it serves as a useful reminder of a past that failed and of an alternate
future not taken.’”
- Michael O’Brien
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
reviewed by Paul D. H. Quigley
“If all of this proves anything, it is that there was no one
‘mind of the South.’”
- Margaret Bender, Editor.
Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideologies
reviewed by Michael Montgomery
“The South was linguistically diverse before diversity was
cool.”
- Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern
A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina
- Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern, and Jennifer F. Martin
A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina
- Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern
A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina
all reviewed by William S. Price Jr.
“Among the pieces of progressive legislation that marked the
early years of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency was the National Historic
Preservation Act of 1966.”
About the Contributors
Southern Cultures 11.1
(Spring 2005)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Southern identity is a moving target. Its meaning keeps changing
and so do those who claim it.”
Essays
- Southerners All?
by Larry J. Griffin, Ranae J. Evenson, and Ashley B. Thompson
“Exactly who is a southerner, exactly who wishes to be a southerner,
and who is thought to have the right to claim southern identity are
now highly uncertain.”
- South to Death
by Earl Higgins
“Those who are given the power by law to exercise mercy become
too intoxicated, overwhelmed by the power to end life; they can no longer
grant the mercy advocated by the scriptural teachings they purport to
follow. Matthew 5:7, for example, instructs, ‘Blessed are the
merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.’”
- Playing Rebels
Defending the Confederacy in the Reenactment of the Battle of Aiken
by James O. Farmer
“South Carolina cannot boast a Civil War reenactment on the
scale of those held at Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, or other
famous battle sites, yet since the mid-1990s it has played host to one
of growing size and reputation.”
Photo Essay
- Rebels in the Wake of 9-11
Homecoming Weekend in Oxford, Mississippi, October 2001
by Katy Vinroot O’Brien
“The usual terrain of southern homecoming celebrations—cheerleaders
rah-rahhing, smartly-clad members of the homecoming court soaking up
the crowd, mothers and babies at parade’s edge, hastily-built
fraternity floats—contrast with markers of heightened national
pride and sudden, uncomfortable transformation.”
Mason-Dixon Lines
- “Bartram’s Trail” and “Pawley’s Island
Shakedown”
two poems by Thorpe Moeckel
“There’s no horizon,
no line on the Atlantic…”
Not Forgotten
- A Valentine for Miss Welty
by Ann Taylor Peden
“Thank you, heart lady.”
Books
- Keith Perry
The Kingfish in Fiction
reviewed by Bryan Giemza
“In the Senate Chamber there is a bizarre reminder of a failed
assassination attempt—a bomb in a desk—that sent a pencil
rocketing into the ceiling. There it remains, stuck in a tile, a spotlight
vigilantly trained upon it. ”
- Michael B. Montgomery and Joseph S. Hall
Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English
reviewed by Michael Chitwood
“I remembered my maternal grandmother saying of a man she
did not care for, ‘Oh, he’s always got a plug of tobacco
in this mouth and that ambeer running down to his chin.’”
- Louis M. Kyriakoudes
The Social Origins of the Urban South
reviewed by Tom Hanchett
“Thank you to Louis Kyriakoudes’s Social Origins of
the Urban South for showing the social history behind the songs.”
- Robert A. Caro
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3
reviewed by John Quinterno
“Lyndon Johnson combined talent, ambition, and genius into
a form of power capable of taming the Senate, that most unruly and aristocratic
of America’s political institutions.”
About the Contributors
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