Winter ‘05

Southern Cultures volume 11, number 4

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Front Porch
    by Harry L. Watson
    "Lynching and mayhem are not the only dimensions of southern history worth preserving."

Essays

From Smiles to Miles
Delta Air Lines Flight Attendants and Southern Hospitality
    by Drew Whitelegg
    "In 1965 Braniff introduced the ‘air strip,’ in which a flight attendant disrobed bit-by-bit during the flight. Delta preferred coquetry to crudity."

And the Dead Shall Rise: An Overview
    by Steve Oney
    "In the 1913 South the novelty of a white jury convicting a white man largely on the word of a black man was enormous. Yet even so, it was only in the trial's aftermath that the deeper and more volatile issues came to the fore."

Teaching Southern Lit in Black and White
    by Michael Kreyling
    "I had to stop. It wasn’t funny, and the bravura failed to lift any literary hearts. In this reading in this place, these words, whatever I might think about their literary merits, described white men on horseback with dogs hunting a defenseless black man on foot."

Features

Mason-Dixon Lines "Guest Quarters at the Continuing Care Retirement Community"
    poetry by Ruth Moose
    "Someone, sometime
    must have made biscuits…"

Southern Voices
Forty Years after the War on Poverty
    Billy E. Barnes, interviewed by Elizabeth Gritter
    "There are times when you come upon a scene and everything is right. It tells a story. It has a center of interest. It has emotion. It has people in it who are beautiful people—and I don't mean Hollywood beautiful."

Not Forgotten
Martin Luther King and the Southern Dream of Freedom
    by Timothy B. Tyson
    "Southern culture, properly considered, actually more or less rules the world."

Books

John Lane
Chattooga: Descending Into the Myth of Deliverance River
    reviewed by Timothy Silver
    "Billy Redden, the iconic 'banjo boy' who will ever be remembered for playing with Drew Ballinger on the hit song 'Dueling Banjos,' now mops floors at a local Huddle House and has a second job at a barbecue restaurant named—as luck would have it—'Oinkers.'"

Anthony Dunbar, editor (foreword by Jimmy Carter)
Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent
    reviewed by E. M. Beck
    "While white southerners are often stereotyped as extreme right-wingers and hard-rock Bible thumpers, the southern progressive tradition of dissent is alive."

Jeannette Keith
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight
    reviewed by Jonathan F. Phillips
    "What inspired draft resistance in the rural South?"

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