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Southern Cultures volume 16, number 1
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Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Whatever he grows up to be, there is a part of every preadolescent boy that loves to play soldier.”
Essays
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera
The Northern Rim of the Gulf Coast since World War II
by Harvey H. Jackson III
“‘I’m just here for the beer.’”
Longing: Personal Effects from the Border
photographs by Susan Harbage Page
with an introduction by Bernard L. Herman
“Images of a deflated inner tube dropped by the road, a wallet mired, with its contents spilling into the mud, footsteps revealed in soft earth, and river-wet clothes wrung, wadded, and cast aside document ordinary things possessed with extraordinary associations of flight, hope, panic, determination, and fear.”
The Long Gay Line
Gender and Sexual Orientation at The Citadel
by Steve Estes
“‘I’m going to get a blanket party tonight,’ he thought, fearing an infamous hazing ritual in which one group of cadets holds down a victim in bed, while another group pummels him. ‘Some guys are going to come in here and kick my ass.’”
Southerners All?
New Northern Neighbors and the Changing Sense of Place
by William W. Falk and Susan Webb
“I tell the students: 'Act like you’ve moved to a foreign country. Things, at times, will seem that odd to you. But in time you will learn to think of them as normal.’”
Features
Mason-Dixon Lines “Photograph, 1983” and “Sandbagging”
poems by Rachel Richardson
“The warden says fill
and you fill it.”
Story The Cottage-Mover
by Bland Simpson
“Over on Roanoke Island, any number of homes in Manteo now stand on foundations they were not built upon, thanks to this man’s work. There was nothing he couldn’t move—why, I believe he once moved a small hotel! ”
Not Forgotten A Civil Passion
by James Fowler
“Civil War News, as the series came to be known, after its gazette-like report on the back of each card, offered images of brutality and mayhem sufficient to satisfy the most demanding boy’s bloodlust.”
Books
Steven P. Miller
Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South
reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
“In 1953, Graham removed the ropes separating black and white attendees at his crusade in Chattanooga, and asserted that, were segregated seating restored, “you can go on and have the revival without me.” His sympathies were with those white moderates who acknowledged the inevitability of racial equality but did not feel its urgency.”
Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone
Working Girl Blues: The Life & Music of Hazel Dickens
Bess Lomax Hawes
Sing It Pretty: A Memoir
reviewed by Joshua Guthman
“Hazel Dickens came of age in the West Virginia coalfields where so many of her family members and neighbors worked. By 2001, when Dickens was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship, Bess Lomax Hawes, who had been instrumental in creating the award, had long since been retired. Hawes’s performance career was short-lived, and so her autobiography dwells mostly on a lifetime spent as a folklorist, teacher, and—dare I say it?—bureaucrat.”
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