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Southern Cultures
6.4 (Winter 2000)
Southern Cultures
6.3 (Fall 2000)
Southern Cultures
6.2 (Summer 2000)
Southern Cultures
6.1 (Spring 2000)
Southern Cultures
6.4 (Winter 2000)
Letters to the Editors
The Redemption of Atticus Finch
“Joseph Crespino’s interpretation of To Kill a Mockingbird
must be politically motivated, because it certainly is not based on the
text.”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“This old mule has a lot of kick left.”
Essays
The Dead Mule Rides Again
by Jerry Leath Mills, with original drawings by Bruce Strauch
“Uncle Jimbo ‘once won a twenty-dollar bet by eating a
bologna sandwich while sitting on a dead mule.’”
Commemorating Wilmington’s Racial Violence of 1898
From Individual to Collective Memory
by Melton A. McLaurin
“On November 10, 1898, an armed mob of whites destroyed the
state’s only daily African American newspaper by burning the building
in which it was housed.”
Southern Roots and Branches
Forty Years of the New Lost City Ramblers
by Philip F. Gura
“Mike Seeger, a conscientious objector during the Korean War,
was fulfilling his alternative national service as a dishwasher in a tuberculosis
hospital.”
Tracking the Economic Divergence of North and South
by Peter A. Coclanis
“Plantations dominated the southern economy by the 1770s, and
those who controlled them had decisively shaped the region’s economic
course, and, perhaps, destiny.”
Commemoration Good Country People
by Linda Flowers
“If they didn’t yet work at the sewing plant or Hamilton-Beach,
they kept up with ‘As the World Turns’ and ‘The Edge
of Night,’ and they’d put supper on the table some nights
out of a can.”
Books
John B. Rehder's
Delta Sugar: Louisiana’s Vanishing Plantation Landscape
reviewed by John Michael Vlach
“‘The plant would be dumping fifty-three million gallons
of wastewater in the Mississippi daily.’”
Stephen Cushman's
Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle
reviewed by William L. Barney
“The great value of an eyewitness account--its unvarnished emotion
and immediacy--comes at a price.”
William G. Thomas's
Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South
reviewed by Frank G. Queen
“‘I amused myself by counting the cars scattered along
the track and turned over by recent wrecks, and got tired when the number
reached twenty-five.’”
Pete Daniel's
Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s
reviewed by Fred Hobson
“In Ellis Auditorium in Memphis in 1955, twenty-year-old Elvis
Presley, one year removed from obscurity, stands with his arm around bluesman
B. B. King.”
Music Recordings Louis Armstrong’s Love Songs
by Gavin James Campbell
“This cd is a delightful complement to any romantic evening.”
Up Beat Down South From Memphis to Nashville: The Odyssey
of Jerry Lee Lewis
by Mark Winchell
“‘This old boy wanted to kill me a while back because
I married his daughter, but we’re friends again now.’”
Mason-Dixon Lines Goldsboro narrative #11
poetry by Forrest Hamer
“He was in love, he protested, and he just wanted
the South to stay as it was for now . . .”
Southern Cultures
6.3 (Fall 2000)
Letters to the Editors
We Get Hammered
“The use of the F-word was completely unnecessary. I am very
disappointed.”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Nostalgia’s just not what it used to be.”
Essays
Adolescent Honor and College Student Behavior in the Old South
by Robert F. Pace and Christopher A. Bjornsen
“Herbert rushed to Greene’s aid, armed with a nine-and-a-half-inch
knife and a pistol.”
Southern Scenes
photography by Dan Sears
“So far Dan Sears has ‘logged over 1300 miles,’
and he has found some of the most artfully crafted images we’ve
ever published.”
Bridge of Words
Encounters with Virginia’s Natural Bridge
by Daniel Philippon
“Ever since Thomas Jefferson proclaimed the Natural Bridge to
be ‘the most sublime of nature’s works,’ visitors have
been flocking to this limestone arch.”
Southern Distinctiveness, Yet Again
or Why America Still Needs the South
by Larry J. Griffin
“When we talk of the South, are we talking about the South of
Southern Living, a South that is enviably affluent and peopled almost
exclusively by gracious whites who seem to do little more than cook gourmet
meals and tend to their luscious gardens?”
Books
Carl Hiaasen's
Kick Ass
Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
reviewed by David Zucchino
“‘When the cop car’s rockin’, don’t
come knockin’.’”
William Arceneaux's
No Spark of Malice
The Murder of Martin Begnaud
Jaclyn Weldon White's
Whisper to the Black Candle
Voodoo, Murder, and the Case of Anjette Lyles
reviewed by Frank G. Queen
“After a few of these tales, the question is not why so ordinary
a person took such an extraordinary step, but why every one of us hasn’t
got a body under the porch.”
Phillip F. Gura and James F. Bollman's
America’s Instrument
The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
reviewed by Mark Roberts
“‘On the evening of his second performance, my ears tingled
and my mouth watered.’”
Eugene Genovese's
A Consuming Fire
The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
reviewed by Annette Laing
“Poor God. He must find it thoroughly tiresome to be constantly
called upon to endorse all sorts of peculiar causes.”
Michael A. Gomez's
Exchanging Our Country Marks
The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum
South
reviewed by Sylvia R. Frey
“Race itself developed at the level of the field worker.”
David Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson, editors
Democracy Betrayed
The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
reviewed by James W. Loewen
“‘What happened in Wilmington became an affirmation of
white supremacy not just in that one city, but in the South and in the
nation as a whole.’”
Janet L. Coryell, Martha H. Swain, Sandra Gioia Treadway, and Elizabeth
Hayes Turner, editors
Beyond Image and Convention
Explorations in Southern Women’s History
Christie Anne Farnham, editor
Women of the American South
A Multicultural Reader
reviewed by Georgina Hickey
“Many women did not fit the images we tend to remember about
southern womanhood.”
Kenneth Moore Startup's
The Root of All Evil
The Protestant Clergy and the Economic Mind of the Old South
reviewed by Robert M. Calhoon
“‘Nothing can be more mortifying and grieving to a man
than to select out some of his Negroes to be sold.’”
Up Beat Down South “The Outer Limits of Probability”:
A Janis Joplin Retrospective
by Gavin James Campbell
“Although Janis Joplin adopted Southern Comfort as her drink
of choice, neither whiskey nor the South brought her much comfort.”
Not Forgotten Confessions of a Chapel Hill Liberal
by John Herbert (Jack) Roper
“I became a liberal because my only liberal friend, Frank Chandler,
was murdered.”
Mason-Dixon Lines The Lessons
poetry by Michael McFee
“. . . we were in jail, being frisked and questioned . . .”
Southern
Cultures 6.2 (Summer 2000)
Letters to the Editors, The Fourth Flag,
“I won’t order Southern Cultures again due to the politically-correct,
stereotypical beating you administer to white southerners.”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“‘God is coming back, and man is she pissed.’”
Essays
The Strange Career of Atticus Finch
by Joseph Crespino
“Certain school districts across the country have censored To
Kill a Mockingbird for its sexual content, and some have banned the book
because of its depiction of racism.”
Signs of the South
Original and Archival Photographs
collected by Charlie Curtis
“What could a former fashion photographer possibly have to offer
Southern Cultures?”
Again the Backward Region?
Environmental History in and of the American South
by Otis L. Graham
“Indian Summer will give way to a long season of planetary troubles--troubles
in bunches.”
Books
Tim Hollis's
Disney Before Dixie
100 Years of Roadside Fun
reviewed by John Shelton Reed
“Among the many things we can blame the1960s for is the end
of the Golden Age of family automobile travel.”
Kristen M. Smith's
The Lines Are Drawn
Political Cartoons of the Civil War
reviewed by Stephen W. Berry
“Would we love Lincoln so well had his soul been trapped in
a more gainly form?”
Fred Hobson's
But Now I See
The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative
reviewed by Steven J. Niven
“You might go to hell if you stole a nickel, but you would not
if you pushed a Negro off the sidewalk.”
Clay Lewis's
Battlegrounds of Memory
Edward Ball's
Slaves in the Family
reviewed by Fred Hobson
“Memoir, by its nature, is self-indulgent, even narcissistic,
but it is also valuable as social and cultural history.”
Thomas W. Hanchett's
Sorting Out the New South City
Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
reviewed by David Goldfield
“This is a southern story of the emergence of mercantile, industrial,
banking, and real estate entrepreneurs and how they shaped a city in an
era of black disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, and the waning political power
of white workers.”
Joanne Grant's
Ella Baker
Freedom Bound
reviewed by Edward O. Frantz
“Through Baker’s eyes the reader finds a critical view
of Martin Luther King Jr. and NAACP president Walter White.”
Richard B. McCaslin's
Portraits of Conflict
A Photographic History of North Carolina in the Civil War
reviewed by William Harris
“This attractive and well-designed photographic history fulfills
in admirable fashion Richard McCaslin’s objective: ‘to present
a carefully selected array of images that convey the experience of many
citizens of the North State’ during the Civil War.”
Durwood Dunn's
An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South
Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery, Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East
Tennessee, 1841-1846
reviewed by Noel Fisher
“Birdseye, a businessman and abolitionist, possessed a coherent
social and moral philosophy--and a wide-ranging curiosity.”
Music Recordings The Cold Hard Truth
by Gavin James Campbell
“Shania and Garth, move over, ’cause The Possum’s
back.”
Up Beat Down South I Don’t Want Nothin’
’Bout My Life Wrote Out
by Patrick Huber and Kathleen Drowne
“Dorsey Dixon, a thirty-nine-year-old weaver, was tending his
looms one rainy morning in the Winter of 1938 when he heard the news of
a deadly automobile accident on nearby U.S. Highway 1.”
Southern Cultures
6.1 (Spring 2000)
The Five-Year Anniversary Issue
Letters to the Editors, Our Readers Finally
Strike Back
“This fellow looks like a dirty, illiterate heathen.”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Is there any reasonable line to draw between what is southern
and what is not?”
Essays
The Southern Autobiographical Impulse
by Bill Berry
“It’s loyalty to the wrong that’s the true test
of character.”
Equine Relics of the Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
“Wounded fourteen times in all, Old Baldy was lucky to have
a carcass left to be stuffed.”
Images of Scottsboro
by Lynn Barstis Williams
“‘Go to Alabama and you better watch out.’”
Books
The Rise of Southern Redneck and White Trash Writers
Featuring the Fiction of Larry Brown, Dorothy Allison, and Tim McLaurin
by Erik Bledsoe
“White trash is no longer something to sweep out the back door.”
Music Recordings The Dixie Chicks Fly
by Gavin James Campbell
“For those who wondered whether the Dixie Chicks were a flash
in the pan, wonder no more.”
Up Beat Down South, Mozart Went Down to Georgia
by Gavin James Campbell
“‘Now don’t you feel smarter already?’”
South Polls The “Southern Accent”
by John Shelton Reed
“People rated as having strong accents are reliably more ‘southern’
in everything from their religious beliefs to their dietary preferences.”
Beyond Grits and Gravy The South’s Thirsty Muse
by Brian Carpenter
“There are few revelations beyond what one might himself discover
at the bottom of a shot glass, julep cup, or snub-nosed bottle.”
Not Forgotten The Anatomy of the South
by Fred Hobson
“South Carolina represents the mouth of the South.”
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