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Southern Cultures 12.2 (Summer 2006)
Southern Cultures
12.1 (Spring 2006)
Southern Cultures 12.2 (Summer 2006)
The Tobacco Issue
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“ Tobacco is more than smoke or even chemical addiction. Tobacco
is longing, tobacco is desire, tobacco is a dream. That makes it perfect
for a southern
landscape that has long made dreaming a prerequisite for survival.”
Essays
- The Duke
by Duncan Murrell
“
The Dukes linked sex and the cigarette, which was audacious not only because
they were abstemious Methodists but because there’s no earthly reason
burning a foul weed in your mouth ought to invoke the pleasures of sex.
And yet it does.”
- A New Cure for Brightleaf Tobacco:
The Origins of the Tobacco Queen during the Great Depression
by Blain Roberts
“‘
All decked out in tobacco leaves,’ the caption read, ‘she
might be aptly termed Miss Venus.’”
- Tobacco’s
Civil War
Images of the Sectional Conflict on Tobacco Package Labels
by Paul D. H. Quigley
“Decades before they used sex to sell cigarettes, they were using
sectionalism to sell cigars.”
Mason-Dixon Lines
- “My Aunt Smokes Another Lucky”
poetry by Michael McFee
“. . . and everybody laughs, especially my aunt,
smoke haunting her head like ghosts of family.”
Film
- Bright Leaves
by Ross McElwee (copyright 2003, distributed by First Run Features)
reviewed by Barbara Hahn
“It’s not necessarily that we want tobacco; tobacco wants
us.”
South Polls
- The South, the Nation, and Tobacco
by Larry J. Griffin
“
My firmly devout Church of Christ grandmother from the hills of east
Mississippi dipped snuff for most of her eighty-five years. She wasn’t
proud of her habit—tried to hide it, in fact.”
Not Forgotten
- The Grand Ole Opry and Big Tobacco
by Louis M. Kyriakoudes
“‘
Its Grand Ole Opry Time—Another big Prince Albert show with Ernest Tubb’”
Books
- Peter S. Carmichael
The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion
reviewed by Stephen Berry
“The young fight our wars. They have the least to lose, the most
to prove, a high tolerance for risk, and a low degree of cynicism. When it
comes to killing,
we tap our children.”
- Andrew Burstein
Jefferson’s Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello
reviewed by Kristofer Ray
“Jefferson certainly cared for Hemings, argues Burstein, much as an English
nobleman cared for an employee mistress—but they did not (and could not)
share a long-term, loving partnership.”
- Helen C. Rountree
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
reviewed by Michael D. Green
“Rountree debunks the myth of Pocahontas saving Smith’s
life as he was about to have his head beat in.”
- Steve Estes
I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement
reviewed by Larry Isaac
“Massacres of entire African American communities were motivated,
in large part, by rumors that a black man raped a white woman.”
About the Contributors
Southern Cultures 12.1 (Spring 2006)
Letters to the Editors
As Long as the Food Is Good0
“We even accept transplanted Yankees who have seen the light.”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“You can almost always start an argument about southern unity
versus diversity.”
Essays
- Life-everlasting
Nature and Culture on Sapelo Island
by Mary Hussmann
“What was most moving was that it was here that the ghosts
of the people we’d read about jumped out of history and into our
lives.”
- Drafting Away from It All
by Lucas Marcoplos
“A dark secret hid itself under my overt appreciation for
barbecue and bluegrass: I knew next to nothing about NASCAR.”
- Fat Tuesday at Dixie’s
Jack Robinson’s New Orleans Mardi Gras Photographs, 1952-1955
by Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman
“Shaw became national news in 1969, when District Attorney
Jim Garrison accused him of leading a circle of gay men from New Orleans
who, Garrison was convinced, orchestrated the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy.”
Interview
Harold Burson
On Interviewing Faulkner for the Memphis Commercial Appeal
by William R. Ferris
“He’d go in his back woods and drink himself insensible
with some of his sharecropper friends.”
Mason-Dixon Lines
“My People”
poetry by James H. Clinton
“My people rolled over twice in a Pontiac one dark
night, but survived. . .”
Southern Voices
Julian Bond
interviewed by Elizabeth Gritter
“We just said, ‘Whoa, what was that?’ and later saw
this bullet hole.”
Not Forgotten
Don Lee Keith Is Dead
by Perry Kasprzak
“‘Hi, my name is Don Lee Keith, and you don’t know
me, but you ought to.’”
Books
- Hal Crowther
Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millennial South
reviewed by John Shelton Reed
“If you agree with Crowther you’ll really enjoy it when
he gets a good rant going.”
- Roy Blount Jr
Robert E. Lee: A Shattered Nation
reviewed by J. Tracy Power
“‘What on earth,’ you may be asking yourself,
‘is the point of another book on Robert E. Lee?’”
- Anne Sarah Rubin
The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
reviewed by Don H. Doyle
“The nation resided in the heart and mind.”
- Keith Lee Morris
The Best Seats in the House
reviewed by Dave Shaw
“There’s craft in asking the right question—in
asking it in just the right way and in leaving it at that—and
South Carolina’s Keith Lee Morris has it mastered.”
About the Contributors
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