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Southern Cultures
3.4 (Winter 1997)
Southern Cultures
3.3 (Fall 1997)
Southern Cultures
3.2 (Summer 1997)
Southern Cultures
3.1 (Spring 1997)
Southern Cultures
3.4 (Winter 1997)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
Oldest Living Confederate Chaplain Tells All?--Or, James B. Avirett and
the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands
by David Cecelski
Compare the romanticized myth of the Avirett family decline with the
economic and ecological reality.
Mixing in the Mountains
by John Shelton Reed
The Melungeons prove to be more than just another of the South’s
“little races” for the author.
Another “Great Migration”: From Region to Race in Southern
Liberalism
by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis
White liberals of the thirties and forties viewed the South’s
problems in terms of region rather than race. What happens when their
views begin to change?
Photo Essay Bringin’ It All Back Home
by Roland L. Freeman, with additional photos by Robert T. Jones, Sr.
Take a look at twenty years of the Mississippi Delta Blues.
Books
Bertram Wyatt-Brown's
The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern
Family
The Literary Percys: Family History, Gender, and the Southern Imagination
reviewed by Tom McHaney
Jay Tolson, editor
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
reviewed by Fred Hobson
Roland L. Freeman's
A Communion of Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and
Their Stories
reviewed by David Crosby
Jerald T. Milanich's
Florida Indians and the Invasions from Europe
reviewed by Amy Turner Bushnell
Jeannie M. Whayne's
A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century
Arkansas
reviewed by Gilbert C. Fite
John A. Salmond's
Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike
reviewed by Michelle Brattain
Dan Carter's
From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution,
1963-1994
reviewed by Ferrel Guillory
John Wilds, Charles L. Dufour, and Walter G. Cowan's
Louisiana, Yesterday and Today: A Historical Guide to the State
reviewed by George S. Lensing
Margaret Earley Whitt's
Understanding Flannery O’Connor
Ted R. Spivey's
Flannery O’Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionary
Joanne Halleran McMullen's
Writing against God: Language as Message in the Literature of Flannery
O’Connor
reviewed by Rachel V. Mills
South Polls A Double-wide What?
by John Shelton Reed
Up Beat Down South “Deep River”: The Life
of Roland Hayes
by Gavin James Campbell
Not Forgotten Selling out to the Yankees
by Carl D. Kirby
Southern Cultures
3.3 (Fall 1997)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
Causes Won, Not Lost: College Football and Modernization of the American
South
by Andy Doyle
Bloomers and Beyond: North Carolina Women’s Basketball Uniforms,
1901-1994
by Pamela Grundy
The “Tennessee Test of Manhood”: Professional Wrestling and
Southern Cultural Stereotypes
by Louis M. Kyriakoudes and Peter A. Coclanis
Southern Crossroads: An Olympic Cultural Festival
by George Holt
Reviews
Tell about the South
reviewed by Andy Ambrose
Four photographic and art exhibitions of the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival
Andy Ambrose's
The American South: Past, Present, and Future
reviewed by Carla S. Huskey
An exhibition on view at the Atlanta History Center through 28 September
1997.
Books
Betty Wood's
Woment's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economics of Lowcountry
Georgia
Larry E. Hudson Jr., editor
Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American
South
reviewed by LeeAnn Whites
Christopher Morris's
Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a WAy of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg,
Mississippi, 1770-1860
reviewed by Ronald L. F. Davis
John E. Cashin, editor
Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South
reviewed by Kathryn McKee
Paul D. Escott, editor
North Carolina Yeoman: The Diary of Basil Armstrong Thomasson, 1853-1862
reviewed by S. Charles Bolton
Samuel S. Hill's
One Name but Several Faces: Variety in Popular Christian Denominations
in Southern History
reviewed by Kathleen Joyce
James L. Leloudis's
Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina,
1880-1920
reviewed by Richard Barry West
Sidney R. Bland's
Preserving Charleston's Past, Shaping Its Future: The Life and Times of
Susan Pringle Frost
reviewed by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Choong Soon Kim's
Japanese Industry in the American south
reviewed by W. Miles Fletcher III
Ronnie Pugh's
Earnest Tubb: The Texas Troubadour
Craig Morrison's
Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers
reviewed by Bill C. Malone
South Polls Cowboys and Indi—er, Braves
by John Shelton Reed
Up Beat Down South “Hallibone, crackabone, ten
and eleven”: Children’s Rhymes and Singing Games
by Gavin James Campbell
Not Forgotten My Dixie Classic
by Fred Hobson
Southern Cultures
3.2 (Summer 1997)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essay
Rituals of Initiation and Rebellion: Adolescent Responses to Segregation
in Southern Autobiography
by Melton McLaurin
What can the autobiographies of black and white southerners coming
of age in the segregated South tell us about race?
Excerpts
The Store of Joys
North Carolina Museum of Art
North Carolina writers respond to works in the North Carolina Museum
of Art with new fiction, poetry, and essays.
The Country Child, When Overpraised
by Allan Gurganus
On Winslow Homer’s Weaning the Calf
by James Applewhite
The Resurrection of Christ
by David Sedaris
Thomas Hart Benton and the Thresholds of Expression
by Robert Morgan
The Goal of a Realist
by Doris Betts
Essay
The Influence of Folk Studies on the Intellectual Development of Howard
Odum
by Lynn Moss Sanders
Two friendships broaden a southern progressive’s view of race.
Books
Katherine E. Manthorne, with John Coffey
The Landscape of Louis Rémy Mignot, a Southern Painter Abroad
catalogue and exhibition reviewed by Peter H. Wood
Mark Royden Winchell's
Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism
reviewed by Michael Kreyling
Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey's
The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil
reviewed by John Chasteen
Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary's
Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775
reviewed by Timothy J. Lockley
Reginald F. Hildebrand's
The Times Were Strange and Stirring
reviewed by Joseph M. Flora
Rodney Barfield's
Seasoned by Salt: A Historical Album of the Outer Banks
reviewed by Loyd Little
Edited by Alice Rae Yelen's
Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from
1940 to the Present
reviewed by Anne L. McClanan
South Polls Momma’nem
by John Shelton Reed
Up Beat Down South “Make Heaven’s Portals
Ring”: Shape-Note Singing
by Gavin Campbell
Not Forgotten “A Country Boy Can Survive”:
Confessions of a Ex-Shitkicker
by Patrick Huber
Southern Cultures
3.1 (Spring 1997)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South
by Theda Perdue
The author uses two legendary figures to explore sex, culture, and
power in the conquest of the South.
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The Great Wagon Road
by T. H. Breen
Over two centuries ago the Moravians made their way into North Carolina
on the Great Wagon Road, which has shaped regional and personal histories
ever since.
Sense of Place: Blacks, Jews, and White Gentiles in the American South
by David Goldfield
Though their relationship with the South has often been ambiguous,
Jews have made a home for themselves in the region.
Books
Richard E. Nisbett and Dov Cohen's
Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South
reviewed by Julius Rowan Raper
Dewey W. Grantham's
The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds
reviewed by William A. Link
Christopher Morris and Steven G. Reinhardt, editors
Southern Writers and Their Worlds
reviewed by Tonita Branan
Charles Hudson and Carmen Chaves Tesser, editors
The Forgotten Centuries: Indian and Europeans in the American South,
1521-1704.
reviewed by Sarah H. Hill
H. E. Comstock's
The Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region
reviewed by Charles G. Zug III
Margaret Ripley Wolfe's
Daughters of Canaan: A Saga of Southern Women
reviewed by Judith E. Funston
Kent Anderson Leslie's
Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893
reviewed by Janette Thomas Greenwood
Michael D’Orso's
Like Judgement Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood
reviewed by Steven F. Lawson
Beverly Bush Patterson's
The Sound of the Dove: Singing in the Appalachian Primitive Baptist
Churches
reviewed by Deborah Vansau McCauley
Constance Curry's
Silver Rights
reviewed by Robert Coles
South Polls The Cherokee Princess in the Family Tree
by John Shelton Reed
Beyond Grits and Gravy Roll Over, Escoffier
by James G. Ferguson Jr.
Southward, Ho! Changing Approaches, New Directions in
Southern-Studies Research
by David Moltke-Hansen
Not Forgotten A Nine Year Old Boy’s Memories of
World War I
by Floyd Waldrep
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