By Harry L. Watson, Larry J. Griffin
What does "redneck" suggest? what will occur to the southern accessory? What makes black southerners chortle? what's "real" state track? those are the categories of questions that pop up during this number of outstanding essays from Southern Cultures, the magazine of the heart for the examine of the yankee South on the college of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. deliberately plural, Southern Cultures used to be based in 1993 to offer either side of the yankee South, from sorority sisters to Pocahontas, from kudzu to the blues.This quantity collects 27 essays from the journal's first fifteen years, bringing jointly the most memorable and interesting essays in addition to a few of these so much asked to be used in classes. A stellar forged of participants discusses issues of id, satisfaction, traditions, adjustments, conflicts, and stereotypes. themes variety from black migrants in Chicago to Mexican immigrants in North Carolina, from Tennessee wrestlers to Martin Luther King, from the Civil warfare to modern debates concerning the accomplice flag. humorous and severe, historic and modern, the gathering bargains anything new for each South-watcher, with clean views on enduring debates concerning the humans and cultures of America's most complicated region.Contributors: Derek H. Alderman, East Carolina collage Donna G'Segner Alderman, Greenville, North Carolina S. Jonathan Bass, Samford collage Dwight B. Billings, collage of Kentucky Catherine W. Bishir, renovation North Carolina Kathleen M. Blee, collage of Pittsburgh Elizabeth Boyd, Vanderbilt college James C. Cobb, college of Georgia Peter A. Coclanis, college of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Joseph Crespino, Emory college Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard collage franklin forts, college of Georgia David Goldfield, collage of North Carolina at Charlotte Larry J. Griffin, college of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adam Gussow, collage of Mississippi Trudier Harris, college of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Patrick Huber, collage of Missouri-Rolla Louis M. Kyriakoudes, college of Southern Mississippi Melton McLaurin, collage of North Carolina at Wilmington Michael Montgomery, collage of South Carolina Steve Oney, la, California
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I still say it to myself at times, sometimes to hear the language, sometimes to ‘‘get a hold of myself,’’ as I was so frequently admonished. And many of the black folks around me, just a generation or two, if that, out of the South, loved country music, and not just those with pickup trucks and cowboy hats. When my mother was a child in New Albany, she and her family would spend Saturdays—the only day o√ for blacks—around the radio, listening first to Notre Dame football (it was a tradition among blacks, a kind of quiet rebellion, to root for the Catholic team) and then to the Grand Ole Opry.
In his 1965 essay ‘‘From the First Reconstruction to the Second’’ in The South Today: 100 Years After Appomattox, ed. ’’ On the ‘‘southernness’’ of the region’s African Americans and their claims on the region and its identity, see Jimmie Lewis Franklin’s 1993 presidential address to the Southern Historical Association, ‘‘Black Southerners, Shared Experience, and Place: A Reflection,’’ Journal of Southern History 59 (February 1994): 3–18; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, In My Place (Farrar Straus, 1992); Carol Stack, Call to Home, and James Cobb in Redefining Southern Culture, 125–49.
The taxonomy they developed is familiar to most readers: Melanie was the flawless female, the embodiment of selfless ‘‘love’’ and sympathy for others, who was willing to fight for her kin but was easily oppressed by di≈culties; she was ‘‘what women would like to be,’’ my students said.