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Southern Cultures
8.4 (Winter 2002)
Southern Cultures
8.3 (Fall 2002)
Southern Cultures
8.2 (Summer 2002)
Southern Cultures
8.1 (Spring 2002)
Southern Cultures
8.4 (Winter 2002)
Ghosts
Letters to the Editors
“To me it was nothing but musical feces.”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“I bleakly recognized a haunt from my own family.”
Essays
Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals
The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
by Bland Simpson
“Upon the rude unpainted table at home the fisherman laid the
wet paper, unscrolled it, but then could barely make out the sloppy clots
of penned words: Deering Captured by Oil Burning Boat . . .”
The Phoenix Riot and the Memories of Greenwood County
by Daniel Levinson Wilk
“‘I was with my father when they rode up, and I remember starting
to cry.’”
The Dulcet Tones of Christian Disputation in the Democratic Up-Country
by Eugene D. Genovese
“Brownlow was ‘a Methodist preacher, who once preached
with a pistol and a bowie-knife on the Bible before him . . . . ready
to gouge any fellow creature.’”
Photo Essay The Dying Art of Deer-Driving in the South
Carolina Low Country
by Ileana Strauch
“These images chronicle a century of tradition.”
Mason-Dixon Lines Learning Strategy at English Field
poetry by Darnell Arnoult
“He is cocky. He’s also cute and a good kisser.”
Up Beat Down South Graveyard Blues
by Rob Golan
“The soundtrack for my Revelation was a simple three-cord ditty.”
Books
Elaine Mensh and Harry Mensh's
Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dream
reviewed by Christopher Windolph
“‘Persons attempting to find a motive will be prosecuted.’”
Kari Frederickson's
The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968
reviewed by Jack Bass
“‘There’s not enough troops in the Army to force the
southern people to admit the Negro race into our schools and into our
homes.’”
Walter M. Brasch's
Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the ‘Cornfield Journalist’:
The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris
reviewed by Jennifer Ritterhouse
“Harris is not only odorless but invisible--forgotten, ignored.”
Gregg D. Kimball's
American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond
Wesley Phillips Newton's
Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946
reviewed by David Goldfield
“Wars change lives. How the Civil War and World War II did and did
not remain fascinating issues for southern writers.”
Clive Webb's
Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
reviewed by Eliza R. L. McGraw
“‘There is only one word to describe their madness—Godlessness.’”
Kenneth E. Koons and Warren R. Hofstra, editors
After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia,
1800-1900
reviewed by John C. Inscoe
“The Valley served as a natural corridor of migration from the
middle Atlantic colonies into the southern backcountry, and as such developed
a distinctive character.”
Southern Cultures
8.3 (Fall 2002)
Biography
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“What fires burned beneath Lee’s famous calm?”
Essays
Struggling with Robert E. Lee
by Michael Fellman
“To be sure, Lee was an enormous flirt his entire life, and
he may have acted on his erotic impulses outside the bonds of matrimony.”
The Youngest Living Yankee Carpetbagger Tells All
Or, How Regional Myopia Created “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman
by Stephen Kantrowitz
“It won’t shock readers of Southern Cultures to learn
that when northerners begin to study the South, they bring along what
we’ll just agree to call misconceptions.”
Robert F. Williams and the Promise of Southern Biography
by Timothy B. Tyson
“But nonetheless I have been lurking in the shadows, plotting
and sulking like one of William Faulkner’s vindictive barn-burners.”
Racial Violence, “Primitive” Music, and the Blues Entrepreneur
W. C. Handy’s Mississippi Problem
by Adam Gussow
“‘My idea of what constitutes music was changed by the
sight of that silver money cascading around the splay feet of a Mississippi
string band.’”
Photo Essay Paradox in Paradise
by Lea Barton
“I was born in Yazoo City at the edge of the Mississippi Delta
in 1956, the year Elvis Presley made his television appearance on the
Ed Sullivan Show but was shown only from the waist up.”
Mason-Dixon Lines In Memory of Brother Dave Gardner
poetry by Henry Taylor
“. . . if you wasn’t already prepared to stop,
beloved, you shouldn’t have started.”
Up Beat Down South Charline Arthur
The Unmaking of a Honky-Tonk Star
by Emily Neely
“Charline’s use of sexual innuendo clearly confused the country
music media.”
Southern Voices An Ironic Jim Crow
The Experiences of Two Generations of Southern African American Men
by Angela Hornsby and Molly P. Rozum
“This black man called the Secretary of the Navy. And the Secretary
of the Navy says to the judge: ‘Let him go.’”
Not Forgotten “God Giveth the Increase”
Lurline Stokes Murray’s Narrative of Farming and Faith
by Lu Ann Jones
“‘Honey, in our way of life, there ain’t no banker’s
hours, and I don’t find in the Bible there’s no such thing
as an eight-hour day.’”
Books
Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie, Editors
Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect
reviewed by Stephen M. Ross
“Much of what we say about Faulkner we are really saying about ourselves.”
Erik Bledsoe, Editor
Perspectives on Harry Crews
reviewed by Frank W. Shelton
“‘I do think that if I live, and assuming they don’t
blow the frigging world up, that I’ll finish Assault of Memory because
I really want to write it, but, damn, it’s ugly."
Southern Cultures
8.2 (Summer 2002)
Letters to the Editors
Is Britney Beloved in ‘Bama?
“‘I just didn't know that the slutty Catholic schoolgirl
has been a staple of pornography for lo these many years! If only I had
realized . . .’”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Accounts agree that the author of ‘Dixie’ actually
came from Ohio, which just goes to show how nostalgia can flourish at
a certain distance.”
Essays
Is it True What They Sing About Dixie?
by Stephen Whitfield
“‘Won’t-cha come with me to Alabammy,
Back to the arms of my dear ol’ Mammy,
Her cookin’s lousy and her hands are clammy,
But what the hell, it’s home.’”
Mississippi's Giant House Party
Being White at the Neshoba County Fair
by Trent Watts
“‘No normal person could resist the gregarious contagion
of this congenial event where merchants and farmers, visiting celebrities
and natives met and mingled.’”
Jackie Robinson and Dixie Walker
Myths of the Southern Baseball Player
by Larry Powell
“‘Jackie took a lot of abuse, but there was no violence.
Even if you count hard slides with raised spikes, that was nothing compared
to what happened in the 1950s and ‘60s during the Civil Rights movement.’”
Our Lady of Guadeloupe Visits the Confederate Memorial
by Thomas A. Tweed
“Some observers have trumpeted the South as the last stronghold
of faithful Christian witness; e H.L. Mencken dismissed it as ‘the
bunghole of the United States, a cesspool of Baptists, a miasma of Methodism,
snake-charmers, phony real-estate operators, and syphilitic evangelists.’”
Mason-Dixon Lines The Pond in Summertime
poetry by Daniel Anderson
“She is AM radio. Chevrolet.
The hot blacktop outside the Dairy Freeze.”
Not Forgotten Back to Branson
by Jerry Rodnitzky
“Even Elvis promoted himself as just a simple country boy with
rural, small-town virtues.”
Books
Helen Taylor's
Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture through a Transatlantic
Lens
reviewed by Brian Ward
“In 1958 a newspaper survey of thirty British schoolchildren
revealed that although only twelve of the fourteen-year-olds had heard
of Dwight Eisenhower, seven of Nikita Khrushchev, and four of Jawaharlal
Nehru, “everyone was on Christian name terms with a Mr. Presley.”
David R. Davies's
The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement
reviewed by Berkley Hudson
“In the late 1960s, in an act of teen-aged defiance against
the waning Closed Society, I took a hammer to remove a ‘colored
reception room’ sign outside a white doctor’s office.”
S. Jonathan Bass's
Blessed are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight White Religious
Leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
reviewed by Katherine Mellen Charron
“Most can remember that 1963 began in Alabama with Governor
George Wallace’s famous inaugural declaration ‘segregation
now…segregation tomorrow…segregation forever.’”
Southern Cultures
8.1 (Spring 2002)
After a Confederate Childhood
Letters to the Editors Capital “S”
Not Required--Since 1861
“Southern Cultures deems the very subject matter of its existence
to be unworthy of capitalization.”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“I remember the fearsome urgency in my mother’s voice
when she told me once that ‘in this part of the country, when people
say the War they still mean the Civil War.’”
Essays
Through the Cumberland Gap
by Doris Betts
“For hours I would practice in front of a mirror that trick
of merely narrowing both eyes with anger, a tiny movement sure to strike
terror into crooked card players and rustlers.”
General Longstreet and Me: Refighting the Civil War
by Louis D. Rubin Jr.
“If only someone hadn’t wrapped Lee’s marching orders
around a couple of cigars and then dropped them on the way to Maryland
for General McClellan to find in 1862. . . . If only history hadn’t
happened as it did.”
Chicago as the Northernmost County of Mississippi
by Anthony Walton
“It took my experience in the North to teach me that I am first
and last a southerner, as I was raised to be.”
Living with Confederate Symbols
by franklin forts
“When General Robert E. Lee is commemorated, what do we do with
the fact that he was a racist?”
The Banner That Won’t Stay Furled
by John Shelton Reed
“First of all, what is it with Mississippi?”
Mason-Dixon Lines Thunder and A Southern Rhetoric
two poems by Cathy Smith Bowers
“ . . . the land is long given up for dead
and farmers have disinherited the sky. . .”
Books
Sarah Patton Boyle, with an introduction by Jennifer Ritterhouse
The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition
reviewed by Melton McLaurin
“‘We’re all bastards; God loves us anyway.’”
David Cecelski's
The Waterman’s Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
reviewed by William Stott
“Slave boatmen carried more than goods and runaway slaves; they
carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime districts
of the slave South.”
David W. Blight's
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
reviewed by Bruce E. Baker
“‘Yes, though naked, we are your masters.’”
Ralph W. Johnson's
David Played a Harp: A Free Man’s Battle for Independence
reviewed by Hunter James
“He soon lost count of how many times the windows of his shop
had been shot out by vigilantes passing through in the night.”
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