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Southern Cultures: The Help Special Issue
Volume 20: Number 1 – Spring 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Southern Cultures: The Help Special Issue
Volume 20: Number 1 – Spring 2014
Table of Contents
Front 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...
A Tree Accurst
Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a tree growing near the ruins of the old cabin was...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
North Carolina's Paul Green (1894-1981) was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern writing to the attention of the world. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1927, Green was a restless experimenter who pioneered a new form of theater with his "symphonic drama,"...
"The Deepest Reality of Life": Southern Sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
'I know your damned photographer's soul writhes, but to hell with it. Do you think I give a damn about a photographer's soul with Hitler at our doorstep?'"
This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern...
Every Ounce a Man’s Whiskey?: Bourbon in the White Masculine South
An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
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...
Southern Cultures
Volume 18: Number 4 – Winter 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
In the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…
The Great Debate: NASCAR vs. College Football
Undercover: Inside the World of the Debutante
On the Backroads: Country Stores and the Days of Yore
A Look at the Numbers: Race and Region in the American South and Beyond
Autobiography: Cotton Milling...
"A Mind-Opening Influence of Great Importance": Arthur Raper at Agnes Scott College
An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
He was such an eye-opener to me . . . such a reversal of the whole way you think about life and society."
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,...
Southern Cultures
Volume 19: Number 2 – Summer 2013 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the Summer 2013 issue of Southern Cultures:
Dixie Bohemians and Inner Hillbillies. Poutin' Houses and Moon Pies. The economics of slavery and the integrity of farming. The Wilmington Insurrection and Wednesday morning miracles. The Summer Issue promises more of what Southern Cultures does...
Southern Cultures
Volume 18: Number 1 – Spring 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
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...
"For the Scrutiny of Science and the Light of Revelation": American Blood Falls
An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Showers of blood, however dreadful, were not news. Pliny, Cicero, Livy, and Plutarch mentioned rains of blood and flesh. Zeus makes it rain blood, 'as a portent of slaughter,' in Homer's Iliad."
This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also...
Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina
A Guide to Music Sites, Artists, and Traditions of the Mountains and Foothills
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else in America. This guide puts readers on the trail to discover many sites where the unique musical legacy thrives, covering bluegrass and stringband music,...
Southern Cultures
Spring 2010 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In the Spring 2010 issue of Southern Cultures, we float down the Redneck Riviera with Harvey H. Jackson III and along Roanoke Island with Bland Simpson, we cross the border with Susan Harbage Page, we examine gender and sexuality at the Citadel with Steve Estes, and we consider our sense of place...
The Country Store: In Search of Mercantiles and Memories in the Ozarks
An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The country store survives. The survivors—and there are more of them than you might imagine—are models of adaptation."
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,...
A Natural-Born Linthead
An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
I would stand outside the mill fence mesmerized by the shadows of pumping Jacquard loom arms on the opaque windowpanes. I had found where I wanted to go. It looked like fun to me. It looked like magic. It didn't take long for that silly notion to be knocked out of my head. But, I persevered and, as...