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Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing what we all share: membership in a democratic republic, with joint claims on its self-governing tradition. It will be one of the first peer-reviewed American history textbooks to be offered completely free in digital form. Visit buildingtheamericanrepublic.org for more information.  Volume 1 starts at sea and ends on the battlefield. Beginning with the earliest Americans and the arrival of strangers on the eastern shore, it then moves through colonial society to the fight for independence and the construction of a federalist republic. From there, it explains the renegotiations and refinements that took place as a new nation found its footing, and it traces the actions that eventually rippled into the Civil War. This volume goes beyond famous names and battles to incorporate politics, economics, science, arts, and culture. And it shows that issues that resonate today—immigration, race, labor, gender roles, and the power of technology—have been part of the American fabric since the very beginning.

Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has been an important public policy goal for more than a century. In recent years there has been a clear shift of emphasis among policymakers from a focus on providing affordable rental units to providing affordable homeownership opportunities. Due in part to programs introduced by the Clinton and Bush administrations, the nation's homeownership rate is currently at an all-time high.Does a house become a home only when it comes with a deed attached? Is participation in the real-estate market a precondition to engaged citizenship or wealth creation? The real estate industry's marketing efforts and government policy initiatives might lead one to believe so. The shift in emphasis from rental subsidies to affordable homeownership opportunities has been justified in many ways. Claims for the benefits of homeownership have been largely accepted without close scrutiny. But is homeownership always beneficial for low-income Americans, or are its benefits undermined by the difficulties caused by unfavorable mortgage terms and by the poor condition or location of the homes bought?Chasing the American Dream provides a critical assessment of affordable homeownership policies and goals. Its contributors represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives and offer a thorough understanding of the economic, social, political, architectural, and cultural effects of homeownership programs, as well as their history. The editors draw together the assessments included in this book to prescribe a plan of action that lays out what must be done to make homeownership policy both effective and equitable.Contributors: Eric S. Belsky, Harvard University; Charles C. Bohl, University of Miami; Rachel G. Bratt, Tufts University; J. Michael Collins, Policy Lab Consulting Group, LLC; Walter Davis, Statistics New Zealand; Mark Duda, Harvard University; Avi Friedman, McGill University; Edward G. Goetz, University of Minnesota; Roberto G. Quercia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Carolina Katz Reid, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Nicolas Retsinas, Harvard University; William M. Rohe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael A. Stegman, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University; Harry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has been an important public policy goal for more than a century. In recent years there has been a clear shift of emphasis among policymakers from a focus on providing affordable rental units to providing affordable homeownership opportunities. Due in part to programs introduced by the Clinton and Bush administrations, the nation's homeownership rate is currently at an all-time high.Does a house become a home only when it comes with a deed attached? Is participation in the real-estate market a precondition to engaged citizenship or wealth creation? The real estate industry's marketing efforts and government policy initiatives might lead one to believe so. The shift in emphasis from rental subsidies to affordable homeownership opportunities has been justified in many ways. Claims for the benefits of homeownership have been largely accepted without close scrutiny. But is homeownership always beneficial for low-income Americans, or are its benefits undermined by the difficulties caused by unfavorable mortgage terms and by the poor condition or location of the homes bought?Chasing the American Dream provides a critical assessment of affordable homeownership policies and goals. Its contributors represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives and offer a thorough understanding of the economic, social, political, architectural, and cultural effects of homeownership programs, as well as their history. The editors draw together the assessments included in this book to prescribe a plan of action that lays out what must be done to make homeownership policy both effective and equitable.Contributors: Eric S. Belsky, Harvard University; Charles C. Bohl, University of Miami; Rachel G. Bratt, Tufts University; J. Michael Collins, Policy Lab Consulting Group, LLC; Walter Davis, Statistics New Zealand; Mark Duda, Harvard University; Avi Friedman, McGill University; Edward G. Goetz, University of Minnesota; Roberto G. Quercia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Carolina Katz Reid, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Nicolas Retsinas, Harvard University; William M. Rohe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael A. Stegman, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University; Harry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 boys get stuck with Smirnoff Ice from time to time?”Every Ounce a Man’s Whiskey?: Bourbon in the White Masculine Southby Sean S. McKeithan“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.”Native Ground: Photographs by Rob McDonald“If convention has it right, these are writers who bear something close to a geneticpredisposition to produce a literature suffused with place.”Turned Inside Out: Black, White, and Irish in the Southby Bryan Giemza“As a place where Black and Green were in perpetual contact, the Atlantic South furnishes an ideal case study in how these peoples moved with, against, and around one another.”“God First, You Second, Me Third”: An Exploration of “Quiet Jewishness”at Camp Wah- Kon- Dahby Marcie Cohen Ferris“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.”“A Mind- Opening Influence of Great Importance”: Arthur Raper at Agnes Scott Collegeby Clifford M. Kuhn“He was such an eye- opener to me . . . such a reversal of the whole way you think about lifeand society.”“For the Scrutiny of Science and the Light of Revelation”: American Blood Fallsby Tom Maxwell“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.”Mason- Dixon Lines BourbonPoetry by R. T. Smith“. . . Earl was a steady liar who never in his life solved a single crime, to hear my father tell it, an improvident soul prone to nocturnal misdemeanors himself . . .”Southern Snowby Nancy Hatch Woodward“There’s a silence in a snowy dawn that forces you to look anew at what has been transformed from the customary landscape of your day- to- day life. Dogwoods glisten in their silver finery; bowing fir limbs form a secret cathedral.”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.

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 Peed’s Turtle Party, Will Sexton’s “Boomtown Rabbits: The Rabbit Market in Chatham County, North Carolina,” Courtney Lewis on how the “Case of the Wild Onions” paved the way for Cherokee rights, poetry by Michael Chitwood, and much more.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.

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 TodayBill Clinton on . . . Bill Clinton. . . and more.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.

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 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.

New stories by Robert Gipe, Minrose Gwin, Odie Lindsey, Mesha Maren, Julia Ridley Smith, and Crystal Wilkinson. Plus: Grit Lit and authenticity, Padgett Powell's ""queer rednecks,"" Monique Truong's challenges to southern authority and subjectivity, Daniel Wallace's ""lesser-known 21st-century authors,"" and a Round Table discussion that finally lays that dead mule of southern lit to rest. Guest edited by Patrick Horn.

This issue of Southern Cultures features contributions by DeLana R. A., Adam Gussow, Melissa Gwynn, John Oliver Hodges, Meredith L. McCoy, Anthony J. Stanonis, William Sturkey, and Rachel Wallace.

This issue of Southern Cultures celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal's publication with a special issue titled Backward/Forward. The issue features contributions by Charles Reagan Wilson, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Kevin Kline, William Thomas Okie, Teresa Parker Farris, Lauren Pilcher, Gene Nichol, David Wharton, Regina N. Bradley, and Rajiv Mohabir. This is a single issue.

This special issue of Southern Cultures, guest edited by Tom Rankin, features contributions by Natasha Trethewey, Tamika Galanis, Kate Medley, T. DeWayne Moore, Phyllis B. Dooney, Lynn Marshall Linnemeier, Pableaux Johnson, Joanna Welborn, Jeremy M. Lange, Rachel Jessen, Kimber Thomas, Eliot Dudik, Rox Campbell, Holly Lynton , Jon-Sesrie Goff, Elaine Sheldon, Aaron Canipe, Jared Ragland, and Alan Shapiro.

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 and wrote the song ‘When Love Comes to Town'' at his request. The song introduced King to important new rock audiences.”Tara, the O''Haras, and the Irish Gone With the Wind by Geraldine Higgins“Into the debate about place, race, and the second-best-selling book of all time, we can also bring Irishness.”Another “Lost Cause”The Irish in the South Remember the Confederacy by David Gleeson“As there had been only two prominent Irish generals, and only one, Cleburne, had had a very distinguished record, the story of the common soldier was the story of the Irish Confederate.”Blacks and Irish on the Riverine FrontiersThe Roots of American Popular Music by Christopher J. Smith“One of the realities of American life is that certain features of African American performance style will remain strange and alluring to those outside the culture. Not least among such features is the making of hard social commentary on recurring problems of life, often through cutting and breaking techniques-contentious interactions continually calling for a change of direction.”Smoke ''n'' GunsA Preface to a Poem about Marginal Souths, and then the Poem by Conor O''Callaghan“Addressing a jubilant crowd in Belfast shortly after the declaration of the original ceasefire in 1993, Gerry Adams reminded his audience that ‘they haven’t gone away, you know.'' He meant that even as ‘the cause'' was dwindling, its upholders-‘the boys''-were still among us. He might just as easily have been talking about the Klan.”

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 is about those tired or ignored or unseen parts of our lives, the mundane and worn paths that sit before us so firmly that we cease to notice. It is, we might say, about rebuilding our sight in the face of blindness, of recovering our collective vision.”American Studiesby Michael Carlebach“Many years ago I concluded that for me truth and beauty, and perhaps wit and wisdom as well, are more likely to reside in what is ordinary and seemingly insignificant. This is, perhaps, a sideways look at America and American culture, but it is one that can produce moments that describe us all, but without makeup and bereft of a spokesperson.”Mapping The Democratic ForestThe Postsouthern Spaces of William Egglestonby Ben Child“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 Adams wrote a scathing letter of protest.”Stereo Propagandaby Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier“In this examination, magic and myth-two of my favorite vehicles-act as buffers to the dominant power structure. It brings together two bodies of collectibles, one personal and one commercial, with the intent of shifting stereotypes about race and southern culture.”Interview“Those little color snapshots”: William Christenberryinterviewed by William R. Ferris“Santa Claus had brought me and my sister a small Brownie camera in the late 1940s, and I just loaded it with color film and went out to that Alabama landscape and began to photograph what caught my eye.”Heroes of Hell Hole SwampPhotographs of South Carolina Midwives by Hansel Mieth and W. Eugene Smithby Dolores Flamiano“Mieth and Smith shared a belief that photography could bring social change. They viewed Pat Clark and Maude Callen as heroic healers whose stories would inspire racial understanding. Both photographers shot powerful images of the most visceral human experiences: birth, death, sexuality, and disease.”Women Workingby Susan Harbage Page“‘Rough. It is rough being a female.''”Not ForgottenThe Day Is Past and GoneFamily Photographs from Eastern North CarolinaBy Scott Matthews“‘It is in fact hard to get the camera to tell the truth; yet it can be made to, in many ways and on many levels. Some of the best photographs we are ever likely to see are innocent domestic snapshots.''”All eight articles from this issue of Southern Cultures are also available individually as stand-alone ebooks.

Personal. Public. Historical. This issue of Southern Cultures is devoted entirely to Memory. . .Front Porchby Harry L. Watson“As the Soviets used to joke about their own politically driven histories, ‘The present we know; the future is certain. Only the past is unpredictable.’”“Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail”Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Leeby Peter S. Carmichael“While northerners might appear comparatively apathetic about the memory of the Union cause, white southerners have been tenacious in searching for moral clarity in the past.”“Personal in My Memory”The South in Popular Filmby some of our favorite writers and filmmakers, with an introduction by Godfrey Cheshire“We have two imaginary kingdoms. One, ‘the South,’ exists primarily in song, oraltraditions and folkways, native art and literature. The other, ‘Hollywood,’ creates mass-produced audiovisual entertainments for American and world audiences, and develops its own mythology.”No SweatMemories of Southern Appalachiaby Danny Fulks“Cooney Simms, the grocer, had a big Philco floor-model radio with push buttons and short wave. Neighbors gathered around when Joe Lewis was fighting. And wasn’t he always this good giant who whipped Adolph Hitler’s man Max Schmeling? Static wasn’t too bad; one could hear Franklin Roosevelt’s fireside chats if they didn’t come on the same time as the Grand Ole Opry.”Mountain Feminist: Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women’s Movementfrom an interview by Jessica Wilkersoncompiled and introduced by Jessica Wilkerson and David P. ClineJudge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern Historyby Sally GreeneHot Springs, Arkansasby Keith MaillardCatfish and Homeby Josh Eure“Big Bone Lick,” “Big Talk,” and “Flush”three poems by Robert Morgan

The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and:The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissed—and kissed—Elvis PresleyHow corruption and greed made the Jacksonville music sceneGretchen Wilson, country music’s “Redneck Woman”The invaluable social spaces of African American record storesBobby Rush, “bluesman-plus”Where Opryland resides in hearts, minds, and soulsBackstage with the Avett Brothers, Doc Watson, Tift Merritt, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Johnny Cash, and more great artists.This enhanced eBook also contains Loving, Leaving, Liquor, and the Lord, which is packed with tracks from the Avett Brothers, Doc and Merle Watson, Archers of Loaf, and many more amazing Southern musicians — old and new.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.

Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Eighteen essays approach globalization from a variety of perspectives, addressing such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration, particularly of Latinos and Asians; local industry in a time of globalization; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicity, and organizing for social justice; and the assimilation of foreign-born professionals.From portraits of the political and economic positions of Latinos in Miami and Houston to the effects of mountaintop removal on West Virginia communities, these snapshots of globalization across a broad southern ground help redirect the study of the South in response to how the South itself is being reshaped by globalization in the twenty-first century.Contributors:Catherine Brooks, Morristown, New JerseyDavid H. Ciscel, University of MemphisThaddeus Countway Guldbrandsen, University of New HampshireCarla Jones, University of Colorado, BoulderSawa Kurotani, University of Redlands (Redlands, Cal.)Paul A. Levengood, Virginia Historical SocietyCarrie R. Matthews, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBryan McNeil, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMarcela Mendoza, University of MemphisDonald M. Nonini, University of TorontoJames L. Peacock, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBarbara Ellen Smith, University of MemphisJennie M. Smith, Berry College (Mount Berry, Ga.)Sandy Smith-Nonini, University of TorontoEllen Griffith Spears, Emory UniversityGregory Stephens, University of West Indies-MonaSteve Striffler, University of ArkansasAjantha Subramanian, Harvard UniversityMeenu Tewari, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillLucila Vargas, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillHarry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillRachel A. Willis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

What does “redneck” mean? What’s going to happen to the southern accent? What makes black southerners laugh? What is “real” country music? These are the kinds of questions that pop up in this collection of notable essays from Southern Cultures, the journal of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Intentionally plural, Southern Cultures was founded in 1993 to present all sides of the American South, from sorority sisters to Pocahontas, from kudzu to the blues.This volume collects 27 essays from the journal’s first fifteen years, bringing together some of the most memorable and engaging essays as well as some of those most requested for use in courses. A stellar cast of contributors discusses themes of identity, pride, traditions, changes, conflicts, and stereotypes. Topics range from black migrants in Chicago to Mexican immigrants in North Carolina, from Tennessee wrestlers to Martin Luther King, from the Civil War to contemporary debates about the Confederate flag. Funny and serious, historical and contemporary, the collection offers something new for every South-watcher, with fresh perspectives on enduring debates about the people and cultures of America’s most complex region.Contributors:Derek H. Alderman, East Carolina UniversityDonna G''Segner Alderman, Greenville, North CarolinaS. Jonathan Bass, Samford UniversityDwight B. Billings, University of KentuckyCatherine W. Bishir, Preservation North CarolinaKathleen M. Blee, University of PittsburghElizabeth Boyd, Vanderbilt UniversityJames C. Cobb, University of GeorgiaPeter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillJoseph Crespino, Emory UniversityDrew Gilpin Faust, Harvard Universityfranklin forts, University of GeorgiaDavid Goldfield, University of North Carolina at CharlotteLarry J. Griffin, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAdam Gussow, University of MississippiTrudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillPatrick Huber, University of Missouri-RollaLouis M. Kyriakoudes, University of Southern MississippiMelton McLaurin, University of North Carolina at WilmingtonMichael Montgomery, University of South CarolinaSteve Oney, Los Angeles, CaliforniaTheda Perdue, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDan Pierce, University of North Carolina at AshevilleJohn Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMart Stewart, Western Washington UniversityThomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTimothy B. Tyson, Duke UniversityAnthony Walton, Bowdoin CollegeHarry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillCharles Reagan Wilson, University of MississippiC. Vann Woodward (1908–1999)

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 with William W. Falk and Susan Webb.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.

In this special Southern Lives issue:* Billy Carter dresses for all occasions.* Virginia Foster Durr opens her home to recently released inmates.* Michael McFee tours the Billy Graham Library.* Septima Poinsette Clark celebrates fellow Civil Rights pioneers.* Albert Murray goes on the record about Ralph Ellison’s style.* Margaret Walker Alexander reveals her takes on Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.... and much more.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.

The Special Roots Music Issue features:B.B. King on Bukka White’s legacy;The Top Ten Folk Singers of All Time;Bob Dylan backstage in ’63 and other rare photographic gems;Swamp bluesman Jimmy Anderson’s first published interview in the U.S.;Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. the Allman Brothers;Pete, Peggy, & Mike — and all the rest that Charles Seeger gave to the world of music;Willie Lowery — musician, songwriting sensation, and humanitarian;Saxie Dowell, the great saxophonist and war hero;a sneak peek at NASHVILLE CHROME, the sizzling new novel from Rick Bass; and much more.The Roots Music Issue comes with a classic FREE CD full of great roots musicians, including BUKKA WHITE, ETTA BAKER, THE BYRDS’ ROGER MCGUINN, WILLIE LOWERY, IDYLL SWORDS, ALABAMA SLIM & LITTLE FREDDIE KING, JIMMY ANDERSON & THE MOJO BLUES BAND, MICHAEL HURLEY, FILTHYBIRD, MEGAFAUN, PRESTON FULP, JOE BROWN, AND MORE OF THE SOUTH’S BEST ROOTS MUSICIANS—old and new. We''ll mail the CD separately to our Roots Music e-book customers at no extra charge.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.

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 (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.

What does "redneck" mean? What''s going to happen to the southern accent? What makes black southerners laugh? What is "real" country music? These are the kinds of questions that pop up in this collection of notable essays from Southern Cultures, the journal of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Intentionally plural, Southern Cultures was founded in 1993 to present all sides of the American South, from sorority sisters to Pocahontas, from kudzu to the blues.This volume collects 27 essays from the journal''s first fifteen years, bringing together some of the most memorable and engaging essays as well as some of those most requested for use in courses. A stellar cast of contributors discusses themes of identity, pride, traditions, changes, conflicts, and stereotypes. Topics range from black migrants in Chicago to Mexican immigrants in North Carolina, from Tennessee wrestlers to Martin Luther King, from the Civil War to contemporary debates about the Confederate flag. Funny and serious, historical and contemporary, the collection offers something new for every South-watcher, with fresh perspectives on enduring debates about the people and cultures of America''s most complex region.Contributors: Derek H. Alderman, East Carolina UniversityDonna G''Segner Alderman, Greenville, North CarolinaS. Jonathan Bass, Samford UniversityDwight B. Billings, University of KentuckyCatherine W. Bishir, Preservation North CarolinaKathleen M. Blee, University of PittsburghElizabeth Boyd, Vanderbilt UniversityJames C. Cobb, University of GeorgiaPeter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillJoseph Crespino, Emory UniversityDrew Gilpin Faust, Harvard Universityfranklin forts, University of GeorgiaDavid Goldfield, University of North Carolina at CharlotteLarry J. Griffin, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAdam Gussow, University of MississippiTrudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillPatrick Huber, University of Missouri-RollaLouis M. Kyriakoudes, University of Southern MississippiMelton McLaurin, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Michael Montgomery, University of South CarolinaSteve Oney, Los Angeles, CaliforniaTheda Perdue, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDan Pierce, University of North Carolina at AshevilleJohn Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMart Stewart, Western Washington UniversityThomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTimothy B. Tyson, Duke UniversityAnthony Walton, Bowdoin CollegeHarry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillCharles Reagan Wilson, University of MississippiC. Vann Woodward (1908-1999)

The Global Southern Music Issue enhanced eBook includes 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 trade verses.Aussie Elvis impersonators keep the king alive.A U.K. scholar offers a new perspective on the study of the blues.Music pirates keep alive another tradition of bootlegging in the South.And much more.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.

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 best: southern lives, real and imagined, re-imagined.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.

Our Fall 2013 special issue commemorates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Featuring essays on the birth of photojournalism at the Battle of Antietam, the struggle over history and memory in the pages of Confederate Veteran Magazine, a historian’s-eye-view of Charleston’s Secession Ball, poetry from the Poet Laureate of the United States, Civil War remembrances from the Southern Oral History Program, and much more.ContentsFront Porchby Harry L. Watson“The most powerful memories of the Civil War continue to be the personal stories, and while the transmission may be sputtering today, they remain the most evocative, both of the winners’ frail victories and the losers’ human pain.”Uncovering the Confederacy of the MindOr, How I Became a Belle of the Ball in Denmark Vesey’s Churchby Blain Roberts“We started to wonder: did twenty-first-century Charleston have separate—even segregated—tourism industries, one that focused on the city’s white history and another that told of its black past?”“The Great Weight of Responsibility”The Struggle over History and Memory in Confederate Veteran Magazineby Steven E. Sodergren“‘In the name of the future manhood of the South I protest. What are we to teach them? If we cannot teach them that their fathers were right, it follows that these Southern children must be taught that they were wrong.’”The Revenantphotographs by Matthew P. Shelton“I drilled until the book was lace.”Rebecca Harding Davis’s Human Stories of the Civil Warby Mark Canada“‘The war is surging up close about us.—O . . . if I could put into your and every true woman’s heart the inexpressible loathing I have for it! If you could only see the other side enough to see the wrong the tyranny on both!’”Maffitt, May 1861–September 1862An excerpt from Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil Warby Bland Simpson“‘No war? I have come to you directly from Washington City, where the caissons are rolling, where a great army has been gathering, where Lincoln is planning for war. Whether you are or not.’”“Truthful as the Record of Heaven”The Battle of Antietam and the Birth of Photojournalismby John M. Harris“‘Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations. These wrecks of manhood thrown together in careless heaps or ranged in ghastly rows for burial were alive but yesterday.’”“Mississippi’s Greatest Hour”The Mississippi Civil War Centennial and Southern Resistanceby Alyssa D. Warrick“From the outset, Mississippi’s commission had a clear goal, evinced by its name. The Mississippi Commission on the War Between the States was unapologetically pro-Confederate, though willing to acknowledge, however begrudgingly, the Union victory.”Voices from the Southern Oral History Program“I Know It by Heart”The Civil War in the Memories of John W. Snipes, Ralph W. Strickland, EdithMitchell Dabbs, and Reginald Hildebrandinterviewed by Brent Glass, Lu Ann Jones, Elizabeth Jacoway Burns, and Rob Stephenscompiled and introduced by Rachel F. Seidman“‘When my husband James was growing up, there was no race question. They assumed that was settled by the war. The Negroes were slaves and then they weren’t. That settled it.’”Mason-Dixon LinesElegy for the Native Guardspoetry by Natasha Trethewey“. . . 2nd Regiment, Union men, black phalanx.What is monument to their legacy?”About the ContributorsSouthern 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.

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 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.

This Omnibus E-book brings together all four issues of Southern Cultures Volume 15, published in 2009.Volume 15 of Southern Cultures explores Lee’s Tomb, how Southern evangelicals kept sin from sacred spaces, the power of memorials, W.E.B. Du Bois’s unusual connection to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, sundown towns, the African American architect who designed one of the South’s elite institutions during Jim Crow, and both the Mississippi Delta and Core Sound Workboats in photographs.It also includes two theme issues with multimedia content, “The Edible South” and “Music.” “The Edible South,” our first food issue, includes the favorite foods of our favorite writers, Drum Head Stew from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, girls’ tomato clubs, Wormsloe plantation, select short films on food from our friends at the Southern Foodways Alliance on the bonus DVD, and more. Our Fall special issue is our third music issue includes a never-before-published interview with “Son” Thomas, a brief history of the boogie, Ella May Wiggins, Top Ten best of jazz, blues, country, and rock greats, Emmett Till in music and song, and more.Enhanced with the 20 music tracks from the bonus CD, “Cool-Water Music,” it brings together yet another eclectic mix of folk, blues, country, and alternative rock, from Pete Seeger to Whistlin’ Britches to Charlie Louvin and George Jones to the Rosebuds. A feast!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.

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 one is able to categorize the reception as divided between blacks and whites or academics and general readers or those who have worked as domestics and those who haven’t.Black Women’s Memories and The Helpby Valerie Smith“Cultural products—literary texts, television series, films, music, theatre, etc.—that look back on the Movement tell us at least as much about how contemporary culture views its own racial politics as they do about the past they purport to represent, often conveying the fantasy that the United States has triumphed over and transcended its racial past.”“A Stake in the Story”: Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, Ellen Douglas’s Can’t Quit You, Baby, and the Politics of Southern Storytellingby Susan V. Donaldson“Like The Help, Can’t Quit You, Baby focuses on the layers of habit, antipathy, resentment, suspicion, attachment, and silence linking white employer and black employee, but in ways that are far more unsettling.”“We Ain’t Doin’ Civil Rights”: The Life and Times of a Genre, as Told in The Helpby Allison Graham“Perhaps because the modern Civil Rights Movement and television news came of age together, the younger medium was destined to become an iconographic feature of the civil rights genre.”Every Child Left Behind: Minny’s Many Invisible Children in The Helpby Kimberly Wallace-Sanders“The question arises: wouldn’t the mammy characters be rendered more believable in their altruism if it extended beyond white children to all children?”Kathryn Stockett’s Postmodern First Novelby Pearl McHaney“Pleasure and anger are dependent on one another for heightened authenticity. Discussing The Help with delight and outrage seems just the right action.”Not Forgotten: Twenty-Five Years Out from Telling MemoriesConversations Between Mary Yelling and Susan Tuckercompiled and introduced by Susan Tucker“I am glad she used what the women told us and made something different from it. She made people listen. I know it is fiction, and I know not everyone liked it, but she made people not forget. What more can you want?”Mason-Dixon LinesPrayer for My Childrenpoetry by Kate DanielsAbout the ContributorsSouthern 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.