This winter we have Dorris Betts on Eudora Welty, John Shelton Reed on race, Shannon Ravenel on Good Ol’ Girls, James C. Cobb on country music, Sarah E. Gardner on women’s Civil War novels, and John Michael Vlach on plantation architecture.
"If changing popular memories undermine the basis for a distinctive southern culture, it will happen because southerners don't need one any more, assuming they really had one in the first place."
"Real-life tragedy is the genesis for lasting art when the murder of Medgar Evers sparks the muse of Eudora Welty."
"The vivid—and graphic—novels of two women authors usher in new views of the War and redefine a genre."
"Does old Hank really spin in his grave each time Garth Brooks launches a new mega-tour?"
"Rural architecture in a city environment imbues function and form with distinct meaning."
A play from Mojo Productions, in association with Company Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of Communication Studies, performed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 18 March–11 April 1999
The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1999; University Press of Mississippi, 1998
Louisiana State University Press, 1998
University of North Carolina Press, 1998
University of North Carolina Press, 1998
Louisiana State University Press, 1997
University Press of Virginia, 1999
Old Hat, 1999; County, 1998
Arhoolie, 1999; Rounder, 1999
Rounder, 1999; Rounder, 1999
Smithsonian Folkways, 1999
"The old cardinal test of a southerner was a commitment to white supremacy. Plus: a special update on the use of "black" versus "African American."
