The Summer 2010 Issue
Southern Cultures volume 16, number 2:
SOUTHERN LIVES
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Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Stereotypes from Dixie crowd American fiction, film, music, and consciousness, and we all know people who seem to fit one of the molds.”
Becoming Billy Carter
Clothes Make the Man (and His Many Characters)
by José Blanco F.
“The regulars at the station had great fun with the press. The station was home to some of the greatest liars and bullshit artists in the history of the world, and tabloid reporters were nothing more than a light snack before lunch for them.”
Voices from the Southern Oral History Program
“I train the people to do their own talking”:
Septima Clark and Women in the Civil Rights Movement
from interviews by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and Eugene P. Walker
by Katherine Mellen Charron and David P. Cline
introduced by Katherine Mellen Charron
“They don't give the women any of the glory.”
“My Idol Was Langston Hughes”
The Poet, the Renaissance, and Their Enduring Influence
from a talk delivered by Margaret Walker Alexander
edited and introduced by William R. Ferris
“As a small child in the 1920s, I was very much affected by the Harlem Renaissance. As early as age eleven, I had read poetry by Langston Hughes.”
Voices from the Southern Oral History Program
Learning from the Long Civil Rights Movement’s First Generation:
Virginia Foster Durr
from interviews by M. Sue Thrasher, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, and Bob Hall
compiled and introduced by Sarah Thuesen
“So I took each in turn, and they told me why they hated white folks. This took quite a while, because they were extremely articulate about why they hated white folks.”
Just As I Am Not
A Poet Visits the Billy Graham Library
by Michael McFee
“Do they keep an eye out for the possible wayward soul (like, say, a middle-aged guy with scraggly graying hair who stays at the margins of the group and keeps scribbling in a little black book) and hope—no, pray—that the cheerful performance of their duties and the powerful unfolding of Billy Graham’s life and message might lead this poor lost person to accept Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior?”
Mason-Dixon Lines So Then
poetry by Murray B. Shugars
“So, you get up and pilfer a cigarette
from your lover’s pack, smoke it in blue
moonlight pushing through the bare
kitchen window. Someone is listening.”
Not Forgotten Albert Murray’s Magical Youth
by David A. Taylor
“‘In America they get away from race by saying ‘minority.’ But who the hell’s the best minority in the world? The hero! You know what I’m saying? That’s always a minority.’”
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