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In the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…The Great Debate: NASCAR vs. College FootballUndercover: Inside the World of the DebutanteOn the Backroads: Country Stores and the Days of YoreA Look at the Numbers: Race and Region in the American South and BeyondAutobiography: Cotton Milling in Alabama and Understanding Personal Identity in the South. . . and more.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University...
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Record selling certainly had its glamorous moments; retailers could regale younger customers with stories of nightlife and even rubbing elbows with famous musicians and celebrities."African-American owned and operated record stores once provided vibrant venues for their communities, and close to 1000 of these shops operated in the South during their heyday.This article appears in the 2011 Music issue of Southern Cultures.Southern Cultures is published...
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In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…Blood rains. Snow falls. Bourbon makes the man. Irish Americans redefine black and white. Camp Wah-Kon-Dah glows in the embers of old memories. The great teacher Arthur Raper opens minds, hearts, and doors. And the creative spaces of geniuses await the next act.Table of ContentsFront Porch by Harry L. Watson"What happens to frontier manhood when blacks, women, and gays drink bourbon too-and white fraternity...
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In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…Guest editor Marcie Cohen Ferris brings together some of the best new writing on Southern food for the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures , which features an interview with TREME writer Lolis Elie and Ferris's own retrospective on Southern sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South. The Food issue includes Rebecca Sharpless on Southern women and rural food supplies, Bernard Herman on Theodore...
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The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious, The 2011 Photography IssueTom Rankin, Guest EditorOur second Photography issue features full-color photographs by William Eggleston, William Christenberry, and much more.CONTENTSFront Porchby Harry L. Watson"It requires very special talent to make great photographs, and those who have it are among our finest artists."The Cruel Radiance of the Obviousby Tom Rankin"Photography in its finest and most decisive moments...
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In the Winter 2013 issue of Southern Cultures:How did we get here? Lebanese in Mississippi, Puerto Ricans in Orlando, Californians at Black Mountain, Tennesseans in Texas, and a bust of a South Carolinian that ended up in the North Carolina Museum of Art. The Winter 2013 issue tells the stories of southerners far from home, making new homes where they land.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of...
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Hot Springs, Arkansasby Keith MaillardWorld War II-era Hot Springs is the foundation for this author's story, a tale about his family's crumbling dynamics in troublesome times."'Well, of course I remember Pearl Harbor,' my mother says, the tone of her voice adding,What do you think I am, an idiot? She and my grandmother were working in the shop when they heard on the radio that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. She was five months pregnant with...
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I see the participatory nature of food in New Orleans as being in the dishes. My guess is that none of the fine chefs in town would accept the challenge of putting their gumbo against somebody's mother's gumbo.
This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal...
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Southern Cultures: The Help Special IssueVolume 20: Number 1 – Spring 2014Table of ContentsFront Porch, by Harry L. Watson"Lauded for her endless gifts and selfless generosity, Mammy is summoned from the kitchen to refute the critics of southern race relations; cruelly circumscribed and taken for granted, she silently confirms them all."The Divided Reception of The Helpby Suzanne W. JonesThe more one examines the reception of The Help, the less...
10) Bobby Rush: "Blues Singer--Plus": From Southern Cultures, Volume 17: Number 4, Winter 2011: Music
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I try to get the people in my hand, for them to love me, and once I get them in my hand, I can then tell them what I've come to tell them. And I come to tell them about the blues. It's just like a preacher."The consummate Chiltin' Circuit performer talks women, finding his crossover audience, and masquerading as two different people on the same stage in one night.This article appears in the 2011 Music issue of Southern Cultures.Southern Cultures is...
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In the Winter 2010 issue of Southern Cultures:Hal Crowther takes on H.L. Mencken (and Rush Limbaugh, too);Southerners battle hornets, rattlesnakes, and bears-so they can pick blackberries;Cowboy Troy crosses country music with hip-hop and says his belt buckle is bling;The experts redraw the boundaries of North and South;The Home of the Double-Headed Eagle rises amidst a line of shotgun shacks;and much more.Southern Cultures is published quarterly...
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The outlandish stories of the antics of early stock car racers immediately attracted me. Lloyd Seay and Roy Hall hauling liquor from Dawsonville to Atlanta one night and winning races the next day in the same car; Fonty Flock winning the Southern 500 wearing Bermuda shorts and argyle socks; his brother Tim racing with a monkey-named Jocko Flocko-in his racecar."This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is...
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In the Spring 2011 issue of Southern Cultures -- The Irish Issue --Front Porch by Harry L. Watson"The authors in this special issue on Ireland and the South argue that the Irish left an outsized imprint on the cultures of the American South and forged a persistent affinity between Ireland and the South.""A lengthening chain in the shape of memories"The Irish and Southern Culture by William R. Ferris"Irish rockers U2 are committed fans of B.B. King...
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The bill gained quick notoriety for outdoing Arizona, Georgia, and all other states in the restrictions and penalties levied on unauthorized immigrants, as well as on the citizens, community members, employers, and health and law enforcement agencies that assist, employ, or regulate them."This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring,...
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Mason-Dixon Lines "Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush" poetry by Robert MorganRobert Morgan drives home a similar message with three poems. They address "memory" on the grandest scale- not merely familial or communal but epochal and even geologic." . . . for ten millennia, the bonesseemed wreckage from a mighty dream . . . "
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The hot bite of the Bourbon sensuously connects the body of the drinker to nation, region, and locale, enjoining his experience with those of imagined, historical bodies, soaking up space and place in the slow burn of what appears an endless southern summertime."This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by...
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In the Fall 2014 issue of Southern Cultures…From mullet fishing on Brown's Island to shrimping on the Gulf Coast, from recreation on the Great Lakes of the South to coastal tourism in the Sunbelt and tramping in the swampy lowlands of eastern NC, we take a look at tourism's vital role in regional economies and the challenges of conservation and sustainability.Also in this issue, Andrew W. Kahrl examines the Sunbelt's foundation, "plac[ing] the coast...
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. . . there's Humphrey pumping drugs all out & sundae soda cracker pop . . ."This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.
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In the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…Guest Editor Ferrel Guillory's special election-year Politics issue features:Five Big Things You Need to Know About the South for this ElectionThe Past, Present, and Future of Southern PoliticsJack Bass on Citizens United, Strom Thurmond, the Southern Strategy, and Jackie OControl of Public Schools and the Politics of DesegregationThe South in the Shadow of NazismDocumenting the Political Immigrant Debate...
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Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. "When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston's palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; nearly all the major critics were scornful, and Ansel...
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