Fall ‘06
Southern Cultures volume 12, number 3
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Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
"What is it that makes people think of themselves as southerners? It isn't just birth."
Essays
The American South and the Self
by Larry J. Griffin
"Just as the history of the South is contradictory and contested, so, too, is the identity of southerners."
"The Boys Will Have to Fight the Battles without Me"
The Making of Sam Davis, "Boy Hero of the Confederacy,"
by Michael C. Cohen
"'You could buy all the dope you wanted in the drug store. Just ask for it, and you got it.'"
Photo Essay
Lacy Charm in Old Mobile
The Historic Cast Iron of Alabama's First City
by John Sledge
photography by Sheila Hagler
"Virtually every American city accessible by water had some ornamental cast iron, but it was nowhere more exuberantly employed than in the Deep South."
Film Twenty-First-Century Slavery
Or, How to Extend the Confederacy for Two
Centuries Beyond Its Planned Demise
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, directed by Kevin Wilmott
reviewed by Trudier Harris
"Are blacks to be proud of the film? Or is it just an expansive, self-indulgent joke that gones on too long?"
Not Forgotten I'm Talking about Shaft
by Michael Parker
"Now we were about to premiere, for an audience suspecting more anemic halftime show standards, the hottest jam of the Black Moses, Mr. Hot Buttered Soul himself."
Books
Marcie Cohen Ferris
Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South
reviewed by Dale Volberg Reed
"Take Jewish studies and southern studies, add study of southern foodways, throw in oral history, and you get Matzoh Ball Gumbo, the book Marcie Ferris was born to write."
Gary R. Mormino
Land of Sunshine, Land of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
"'I spent thirty years of my life trying to get people to move down there,' the former mayor of Orlando has recalled. 'And then they all did.'"
James Applewhite
Selected Poems
reviewed by Robert M. West
"James Applewhite, unmistakably a southerner, has managed to win fame at the national level."
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
reviewed by John Bodnar
"Fitzhugh Brundage's excellent book takes up the subject of public forms of remembering and commemoration in the South since the Civil War."
Paul Harvey
Freedom's Coming
Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era,
reviewed by Matt J. Zacharias Harper
"If you think you understand how religion and race work in the South, then obviously no one has explained it to you properly."
About the Contributors