 Southern Cultures
Winter 2007: The Global South Issue
Published by the
University of North Carolina Press
for the
Center for the Study of the American South
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“The changes of recent decades have now brought America's most isolated region into closer contact with global influences than at any time in memory. ”
Essays
To Know Tobacco
Southern Identity in China in the Jim Crow Era
by Nan Enstad
“ Many southerners from rural areas did not yet have electricity or indoor plumbing in the early twentieth century. In Shanghai they encountered more modern amenities and an elaborate public nightlife, full of perfect strangers. ”
New People in the New South
An Overview of Southern Immigration
by Carl L. Bankston III
“
The making of a global South is a relatively new phenomenon, yet these dynamics that drive recent immigration to the region have deep historical roots. ”
Your Dekalb Farmers Market
Food and Ethnicity in Atlanta
by Tore C. Olsson
“While the culinary atmosphere of 1977 Atlanta may have remained 'traditional,' the city itself was hardlly reminiscent of the romantic world Margaret Mitchell depicted in Gone with the Wind. ”
Interview
Bill Smith
Taking the Heat--and Dishing It Out--in a Nuevo New South Kitchen
with Lisa Eveleigh
“The Mexican guys said, 'let me do it, let me do it!' And they were peerless. ”
Essays
Of Chicken and Men
Cockfighting and Equality in the South
by Marko Maunula
“At the referee's signal, the handlers let their rooster go, and the birds, as if filled with sacred rage, assault each other in a hurricane of feathers, beaks, glittering spurs, and flapping wings. ’”
Selling Which South?
Economic Change in Rural and Small-Town North Carolina in an Era of Globalization, 1940-2007"
by Peter A. Coclanis and Louis M. Kyriakoudes
“If national planners and the federal government first became interested in rural manufacturing as a development strategy in the 1930s and 1940s, the South had by that time been poursuing such a strategy for generations, albeit with mixed success. ”
The Instutute and the Factoryb
Business Leadership and Change in the Global South
by John Russell
"We can't lead in this world for long by making people afraid. It simply is impossible to succeed while being afraid."
Mason-Dixon Lines Near Bluffton Mill and Late Spring, Rockfish Gap
two poems by Rebecca Lilly
"Among the grass tufts / Along a fence: cattle bones . . ."
South Polls "In My Heart, I'm an American"
Regional Attitudes and American Identity
by Larry J. Griffin and Katherine McFarland
"No other country has become home to so many immigrants and to so many different kinds of immigrants
Beyond Grits and Gravy There's a Word for It--
The Origins of "Barbecue"
by John Shelton Reed
"For all that southerners have made barbecue our own, the fact remains that this symbol of the South, like kudzu, is an import."
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