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Southern Cultures
9.4 (Winter 2003)
Southern Cultures
9.3 (Fall 2003)
Southern Cultures
9.2 (Summer 2003)
Southern Cultures
9.1 (Spring 2003)
Southern
Cultures 9.4 (Winter 2003)
 Front
Porch by Harry L. Watson
“Would the newfangled South have its faith in ancient treasure
to fall back on?”
Essays
- “Oh, so many startlements . . .”
History, Race, and Myth in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
by Hugh Ruppersburg
“It’s a southern tall tale, the story of a confidence
man, of a treasure hunt, of a man trying to prove himself to his children
and estranged wife, of a political campaign, of three buddies on the
road, of the quest for home.”
- Locals on Local Color
Imagining Identity in Appalachia
by Katie Algeo
“Movies, television, comic strips, and postcards feature the
lanky, gun-toting, grizzle-bearded man with a jug of moonshine in one
hand and a coon dog at his feet.”
- April—Deep South
photographs by Phillip Goetzinger
“This amazing scenario—this land in flux—was the
impetus for my journey south.”
Mason-Dixon Lines Georgia Scene: 1964
poetry by John Beecher
“. . . dragging that 70-year-old white lady
down the courthouse steps
with her head going bam on every step. . .”
Southern Voices “I Played by the Rules, and I
Lost”
The Fight for Racial Equality in the North Carolina Agricultural Extension
Service
by P. E. Bazemore
edited by Kieran Taylor
“You were there at the U.S. Supreme Court. Your name is called
in that body of people. It was just frightening.”
Up Beat Down South “Lord, Have Mercy on my Soul”
Sin, Salvation, and Southern Rock
by J. Michael Butler
“The band delighted in sharing their bottle of Jack Daniels
with a chimpanzee.”
Not Forgotten Confederate Money
A Memoir of the 1850s and 1860s
by Virginia Fendley Dickinson
edited by Angela Potter
“Butler was already firing on Drewry's Bluff a few miles from
Richmond, and the cannon balls were falling in every direction.”
Books
- Christopher Metress, Editor
The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative
reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
“After all, once Moses Wright pointed his finger at ‘Big’
Milam in court, the identity of the killers was not in doubt.”
- Don H. Doyle
Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question
reviewed by Susanna Delfino
“Northerners were not all angels, just as southerners were
not all devils.”
- Jim Wright
Fixin’ To Git: One Fan’s Love Affair With NASCAR’s
Winston Cup
reviewed by Dan Pierce
“As far as love affairs go, unfortunately, Fixin’ to
Git is the equivalent of a one-night stand.”
About the Contributors
 Southern
Cultures 9.3 (Fall 2003)
Letters to the Editors The Man in Question
“The children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the
man on the cover of the Spring 2003 issue are delighted by it.”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Manners can cover everything. Clothing, liquor, and cigarettes.
Church and family. Weddings, funerals, and politics. Race, class, and
sex. Especially sex.”
Interview Eudora Welty
“. . . standing under a shower of blessings”
interviewed by William R. Ferris
“One, two, three. I just waded out . . . through the muck. And then
I got in his sailboat. Of course I was wet, but you can’t ask William
Faulkner to wring you out, I guess. It hadn’t occurred to me until
this minute that I might have.”
Essays
- Into the Belly of the Beast
The 2002 North Carolina Flue-Cured Tobacco Tour
by Barbara Hahn
“The medical costs of dying young appear to ring a heavier
charge on the public purse than do the myriad ills of old age. Movies
and television portray Big Tobacco as evil personified, the devil, the
beast.”
- Enough About the Disappearing South
What About the Disappearing Southerner?
by Larry J. Griffin and Ashley B. Thompson
“Are southerners a dying breed?”
- Looking for Railroad Bill
On the Trail of an Alabama Badman
by Burgin Matthews
“Over the next two years, Morris Slater--known forever after
as “Railroad Bill”--terrorized trains, illegally riding
the south Alabama freighters, often robbing them of their goods and
occasionally engaging in shootouts with resisting trainmen or police.
Eventually, in one of those shootouts, he added murder to his record.”
Mason-Dixon Lines Vietnam War Memorial
poetry by Robert Morgan
“. . . From that pit you can’t see much
official Washington, just sky
and trees and names and people . . .”
Not Forgotten Southern Nigerian
by Elaine Neil Orr
“What I most recall is the sun slamming down, ricocheting off
tin roofs of mud and plaster houses that duplicated one another endlessly
down a thousand bicycle paths, splashes of puddles during the rains, and
a hundred women on their way to market.”
Books
- Fred Hobson, Editor
South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-first Century
reviewed by Michael Kreyling
“When Tiger Woods (whose presence at Augusta swinging a club
rather than carrying a bag changed golf--and Fuzzy Zoeller's career)
won his third green jacket this past April, golf writers complained
that the competition had given up.”
- Brooks Blevins
Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image
reviewed by John C. Inscoe
“The Ozarks have long suffered from an image problem. Even
compared with Appalachia--itself no stranger to degrading stereotypes
and blatant misrepresentation--these other southern highlands have been
exceptionally maligned.”
About the Contributors
 Southern
Cultures 9.2 (Summer 2003)
Contents
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Take a little Shakespeare here, add a little Scripture there,
rework a bad joke, and voila, another masterpiece.”
Essays
- A Conspiracy of Dunces?
Walker Percy's Humor and the Chance of a Last Laugh
by Bryan Giemza
“‘Percy took a punch intended for Foote--from an outraged
woman, no less--and had the good grace to earmark the scene for fictional
purposes. ’”
- Quoting, Merging, and Sampling the Dream
Martin Luther King and Vernon Johns
by Ralph E. Luker
“‘I must be measured by my soul--the mind is the standard
of the man.'’”
- To the Land I Am Bound
A Journey into Sacred Harp
by David Carlton
“As I found myself climbing over clay and gravel, negotiating
switchbacks and sudden steep upgrades, I found myself thanking God for
the weather and myself for my brand new transmission."
- Images of African Americans in Southern Painting, 1840-1940
by A. Everette James
“Southern paintings showed African Americans as largely dehumanized
caricatures, black stereotypes rather than distinct individuals.”
Mason-Dixon Lines Dollar Bill
poetry by Michael Chitwood
“Outside, in the parking lot, sparrows bathe in the dust. Empires
rise and fall. He'll notice and say nothing of it on the air.”
South Polls Birds of a Feather
by John Shelton Reed
"Do southerners prefer one another's company?"
Not Forgotten The Fruits of Memory
by Amy E. Weldon
“The orchard was still hot, still rustling and green, still
haunted by the terror of snake bodies writhing to life under your feet.”
Books
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Hunter James
The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork
reviewed by Fred Hobson
"James can certainly laugh at himself and his forebears--at
his grandfather's flying leap from a second-floor whorehouse window
to a sturdy maple during the great Winston flook of 1916."
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David Goldfield
Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern
History
reviewed by David W. Blight
"Southerners have, since 1865, lived under a 'burden' of
history and memory."
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Bill C. Malone
Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working
Class
reviewed by Patrick Huber
"'You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can
sing like a hillbilly."
About the Contributors
 Southern
Cultures 9.1 (Spring 2003)
Letters to the Editors
Britney’s Ghost
“I figured I’d better wait awhile to see if y’all
would settle down and get back to doing what you do best: aggravating
people, but not insulting them.”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“If you’ve never thought of yin and yang as southern symbols,
maybe you will now.”
Essays
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Our Kind of Yankee
by John Shelton Reed
“What’s going on here? Texans and South Carolinians playing
kissy-face with New York City? Isn’t New York the heart of Yankeedom?
Isn’t it the city southerners love to hate?”
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Yankee Interloper and Native Son: Carl Carmer and Clarence Cason
By Philip Beidler
“‘Like a fickle lover, the South has a way of tormenting
those who care most about her.’”
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In Search of a Lost Confederate Graveyard
photographs by Charlie Curtis
“At last Curtis could sense that he was closing in on the lost
Confederates.”
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Heritage, not Hate? Collecting Black Memorabilia
by Lynn Casmier-Paz
“When I arrived at the Silver Spring Armory, I found the place
jammed with brown and black people hawking rusted ‘Authentic
Slave Shackles’ that only a consumer with a platinum credit
card could purchase.”
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My Twentieth Century: Leaves from a Journal
by Anne Firor Scott
“For a moment the world stopped turning while we, a great nation,
felt ourselves suddenly headless, directionless.”
Mason-Dixon Lines Audubon Drive, Memphis
poetry by Jim Seay
“Elvis is about twenty-one and ‘Heartbreak Hotel’
has just sold a million.”
Up Beat Down South “The Death of Emma Hartsell”
by Bruce E. Baker
“One December afternoon, he finished off a running argument with
his younger brother-in-law with both barrels of a shotgun.”
Books
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Harlan Greene's
Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance
reviewed by Dale Volberg Reed
“Charleston society cut him dead, and he began again the
cycle of illness, depression, and addiction."
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Harvey Broome's
Out Under the Sky of the Great Smokies: A Personal Journal
reviewed by Daniel S. Pierce
“Broome relished hiking through mist-shrouded old-growth forests,
sleeping in the rain, or rock-hopping in winter on ice-covered boulders.”
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Michelle Brattain's
The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern
South
reviewed by Carl Burkart
“No wonder federal efforts to integrate schools and workplaces
met with hard-line opposition from white mill-hands.”
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Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon, editors
Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their
Wives
reviewed by Nina Silber
“Would the war have gone differently if Stonewall Jackson or
William Sherman had listened more to their wives?”
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Don H. Doyle's
Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha
reviewed by Linda Wagner-Martin
“Faulkner and his work remain lynchpins of the study of
southern culture.”
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Benjamin R. Justesen's
George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race for Life
reviewed by John H. Haley
“In July 1900, George Henry White allegedly stated, ‘May
God damn North Carolina, the state of my birth.’”
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Randy J. Sparks's
Religion in Mississippi
reviewed by David Edwin Harrell Jr.
“‘Attacked by right-wing segregationists for being too
liberal and almost equally denounced by their coreligionists outside
the region for being too conservative, white religious leaders across
the state were virtually paralyzed.’”
About the Contributors
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