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"God First, You Second, Me Third": An Exploration of "Quiet Jewishness" at Camp Wah-Kon-Dah
An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This was an anxious time for American Jews, stung by the anti-Semitic quotas and discrimination of the interwar years and the growing horror regarding the fate of European Jewry as the Holocaust came to light in the 1940s."
This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures....
North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries
A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Want to eat like the locals? D. G. Martin has spent years traveling the major roadways of North Carolina, on the lookout for community, local history, and, of course, a good home-cooked meal. Here D. G. is your personal tour guide to more than 100 notable local roadway haunts that serve not only as...
Boss Jocks: How Corrupt Radio Practices Helped Make Jacksonville One of the Great Music Cities
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
'Kickbacks from government vendors, jobs for cronies, sweetheart deals for contractors' were commonplace—'It may have been the most corrupt city in America.'"
What happened when greedy promoters ran radio stations and the local concert scene? They brought the Beatles to Jacksonville,...
'Poor Carolina'
Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Ekrich examines the reasons for eighteenth-century North Carolina's political factionalism, social violence, and governmental paralysis. Especially disruptive were the opening of new areas of settlement and the influx of migrant groups with high material hopes, particularly since the colony's economy...
For the Records: How African American Consumers and Music Retailers Created Commercial Public Space in the 1960s and 1970s South
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
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...
Telling Histories
Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various...
Southern Cultures: The Politics Issue
Volume 18: Number 3 – Fall 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
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 Election
The Past, Present, and Future of Southern Politics
Jack Bass on Citizens United, Strom Thurmond,...
Hiking North Carolina's National Forests
50 Can't-Miss Trail Adventures in the Pisgah, Nantahala, Uwharrie, and Croatan National Forests
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
North Carolina's 1.2 million acres of national forestland are some of our state's most distinctive and botanically diverse areas. Veteran nature writer Johnny Molloy welcomes you to enjoy these beautiful and often surprising wild areas, guiding you safely there and back again. Molloy renders the sometimes...
Southern Cultures: 2013 Global Southern Music Issue, Enhanced Ebook
Spring 2013 Issue, includes Music tracks
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
The Global Southern Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on Traveling Shoes, our special free CD and:
The South meets Senegal as hip-hop goes Trans-Atlantic.
Hawaiian steel guitar sways the Southern musical landscape.
Poet Allen Ginsberg and bluesman James "Son" Thomas...
Theodore Peed's Turtle Party
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
'There's only one piece of white meat in him and that's his neck. The rest of the meat is dark meat. If you fry it, it's still like a white piece of meat, like a chicken breast. The rest of it looks like a chicken leg."
This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures....
"Country Music is Wherever the Soul of a Country Music Fan Is": Opryland U.S.A. and the Importance of Home in Country Music
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Nixon's visit (only five months before his resignation) was seen by national journalists and politicos to be a trip to one of the few places where he would still receive a warm reception, and it was quite warm indeed. Nixon took the stage, played two songs on the piano, and bantered with Roy Acuff."
When...
"Redneck Woman" and the Gendered Poetics of Class Rebellion
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In 2004 Gretchen Wilson exploded onto the country music scene with 'Redneck Woman.' The blockbuster single led to the early release of her first CD and propelled it to triple platinum sales."
Gretchen Wilson celebrates a new kind Virile Woman on the country music scene—but this subtle...
by James L. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Exploring the life and leadership of Populist Marion Butler (1863-1938), James Hunt offers new insight into the challenges of American reform politics.
The son of North Carolina farmers and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Butler displayed an early proclivity for agrarian reform....
North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS
Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the...