FALL 2017 Center Welcomes Incoming Graduate Classes

This fall, Southern Studies launches its new master of fine arts in documentary expression program. The goal of this new program is to teach students who already possess considerable skill and experience in documentary tech- niques and interdisciplinary scholarship to produce docu- mentary films, photography, or audio projects of high quality. The background for this idea is that the Southern Studies MA program has graduated numerous students who, as they complete the program, say they wish they had the time and attention to apply their newly learned skills to a polished project. These MFA students join the Southern Studies MA students in classes such as Fieldwork and Oral History, Documenting the South in Film, Foodways and Southern Culture, Cultural Studies: The Blues Tradition, Studies in African American Diaspora, Studies in Southern Literature: The Queer South, and Documentary and Social Issues. Incoming MA graduate students, left to right, Hooper Incoming MA and MFA students come to Southern Schultz, Frances Barrett, Robert Panagiotopoulos, Keerthi Chandrashekar, and Frank Easterlin

Studies from a range of places and alma maters. This year’s MFA students include Mary Blessey (Millsaps College and University of Mississippi), Turry Flucker (Tougaloo College and University of Mississippi), Chi Kalu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Jasmine Karlowski (Emory University), Mary Stanton Knight (University of Mississippi), Chelsea Wright Loper (Presbyterian College and University of Mississippi), Susie Penman (University of Mississippi), Jonathan Smith (East Carolina University), and James G. Thomas, Jr. (University of Mississippi). The incoming MA class includes Frances Barrett (University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill), Keerthi Chandrashekar (NYU), Frank Easterlin (Young Harris), Robert Panagiotopoulos (University of Bedfordshire), and Hooper Schultz (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). Incoming MFA graduate students, left to right, first row: Susie Penman, Chelsea Wright Loper, Mary Stanton Southern Studies orientation for first-year students took Knight; second row: Chi Kalu, Jasmine Karlowski, place on Wednesday, August 16, with an informational Jonathan Smith; back row: Mary Blessey, Turry Flucker, meeting in Barnard Observatory followed by dinner with and James G. Thomas, Jr. Center faculty, staff, and second-year MA students. DIRECTOR’S COLUMN

The Center for the Study of Southern Culture As I’ve written in this turns forty this year. It was in 1977 that the Center had column before, one of the its first event, a conference about Eudora Welty and her many successful decisions our work, with Welty and some of her friends in attendance. earliest organizers made was On September 22 and 23, a birthday party and reunion to make sure teaching was at the center of the Center. will feature alumni of the Southern Studies BA and MA That decision made great sense as an administrative programs. The event will offer plenty of time for alumni, strategy, since universities appreciate it when units faculty, staff, and everyone who has been involved in the teach students. But more importantly, having students Southern Studies program to see friends, compare experi- at the middle of the Center’s mission has also made ences, and maybe make some new friends. If you are one great sense to making sure the Center’s academic life is of those friends, please consider this your invitation. open to change. Students help determine what Southern The program for the birthday reunion will consist of Studies teaches, what questions it considers meaningful, several ways to discuss one question: how do people what technologies it needs, and how it relates to the from the Southern Studies program do Southern Studies world beyond academia. in the various parts of their lives? For some people that Students ask new questions and want new things, and may be obvious. Some alums run or work in cultural it is an ongoing creative process to learn what to teach, institutions about southern history, or they teach, write, how best to teach it, and, very often, how to learn from and edit work about the South. But the question of doing students and with them. The Southern Studies students Southern Studies belongs to everybody with a Southern who created the Southern Foodways Alliance and the Studies background as they think about their work, their William Winter Institute are among many clear exam- forms of creativity and activism, their neighborhoods and ples of students who changed Southern Studies, like the institutions they join or avoid, their reading, and their students who asked for a documentary track and then an personal choices both big and small. Events on Saturday, MFA degree and those who ask for new classes in specific September 23, will take place in Barnard Observatory. topics. Students collaborate on all sorts of projects—from Everyone with a Southern Studies connection is invited, encyclopedia work to public history work to Living Blues and we look forward to seeing friends from all moments internships to crucial film and photography work. in the program. More broadly, students raise questions. Why this book, One can make a good case that among academic this approach, this technology, this question? And in programs that do interdisciplinary regional studies, referring to Southern Studies as “the program,” I recall reaching forty is a pretty good accomplishment. On our late friend Chris Fullerton comically describing many campuses, academic centers tend to come and Southern Studies as a multistep program to address the go, changing focus, name, leadership, physical location, addictive habits of students who were always raising reliance on grant funding, relationships with institutional questions. leaders, and reasons for existence. The question arises So, one part of the invitation to the birthday reunion whether forty raises the same questions about institu- is this: along with thinking about how you do Southern tions as it can for individuals—questions about the need Studies now and in the future, alums should come to redefine priorities or to try some things that seem out prepared to think about what parts of Southern Studies of character. seemed important to address or reject or to get started. I would ask which of the following seemed especially important during your time in the program: borders THE SOUTHERN REGISTER and boundaries, centers and decentering, cores and A Publication of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture • The University of Mississippi peripheries, distinctiveness and identity, defining the South and who gets to do the defining, studying power, NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED QUARTERLY PublishedOXFORD by, MISSISSIPPI, U.S.A • WINTER 2014 The Center for the Study of Southern Culture resistance to power, and the power relations tied up in The University of Mississippi all sorts of things, thinking about how contemporary Telephone: 662-915-5993 • Fax: 662-915-5814 protests and politics changes what needs to be studied, E-mail: [email protected] • southernstudies.olemiss.edu studying myths and traditions and studying memory, Fall 2017 debating which texts are canonical, who chooses, and why it might matter, studying the concept of race rela- REGISTER STAFF tions or racial construction and the process and politics of racializing, studying a biracial South, or a triracial Editor: James G. 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Page 2 Fall 2017 The Southern Register of race and ethnicity, thinking about central themes and whether or not Jamie Joyner Endowment we should do that, thinking about burdens and crucibles and new or old versions of Jim Crow, thinking Created to Assist Graduate about continuity and change in religion and other topics, studying Students in Southern Studies women’s history and literature or doing gender studies or queer While fresh flowers or a night out to dinner might be a perfectly accept- studies or sexuality studies, studying able birthday present, Ernie Joyner of Tupelo, Mississippi, went one step cultural expression and creativity further. His recent birthday surprise to his wife, Jamie, was the creation of from music to foodways to visual arts the Jamie Joyner Endowment in Southern Studies to assist University of by studying genres or individuals or Mississippi graduate students. labor or class issues or by studying “I decided to create the endowment because of Jamie’s dedication to the cultural interventions and markets, Southern Studies program,” said Ernie Joyner. “I think Southern Studies is studying tourism, including the worth preserving and knowing about, and I think her enthusiasm for the tourists, studying stereotypes and program led me to believe it would be a good cause.” stereotype-makers, studying multiple The annual income from the Joyner Endowment will assist graduate Souths and movable Souths, broad- students pursuing either a master of arts or a master of fine arts in ening the context and meanings of Southern Studies. Southern Studies (and questioning Jamie Joyner, a member of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture all sorts of assumptions) through advisory committee for twenty years, was first attracted to the Center the concept of the Global South, through the founding director’s work. “I became interested in Southern studying the technologies, aesthetics, Studies when I saw a film Bill Ferris produced about a man teaching and the politics of documentary his hogs to pray, called Hush Hoggies Hush,” said the native of Ingomar, work old and new, thinking about Mississippi. “I, like Bill, had grown up in the country, and through this how best to study physical senses, film I remembered so many events that happened on our farm. This led studying what you love without to my interest in rural Mississippi, followed by blues music and current romanticizing, studying things Mississippi writers.” outside your experience without Ernie Joyner said his wife thoroughly enjoys her involvement with the exoticizing, studying as part of social Center and is passionate about its mission to investigate, document, inter- justice work, and sometimes asking pret, and teach about the American South. old questions to see if they are really Center Director Ted Ownby said the Joyner gift will help in the recruit- obsolete or just old school and kind ment of top graduate students and he appreciates the chance to honor of classic. Joyner’s enthusiastic, thoughtful work on the board by annually naming Part of why I like Southern Studies a new Joyner Fellow. “This is a terrific gift because it allows us to increase is that most alumni who just read what we can offer an incoming graduate student every year,” Ownby said. the preceding very long sentence “The student to whom we offer the Joyner Fellow will have some additional are likely, along with questioning funds as well as the honor of a named fellowship. Providing enough funding its sentence structure, to ask why it for graduate students is always a challenge, and it’s especially helpful to leaves out their favorite parts of the have resources that might contribute to students in the new MFA program.” program—or their least favorite. To Consisting of about two dozen friends of the Center, the Center’s advi- return to the origins of the Center, sory committee meets twice a year to hear reports and share suggestions I should make the point that faculty about Southern Studies programs. Member Lynn Gammill of Hattiesburg do not always take student sugges- suggested Joyner as a member, and she was thrilled to accept. “I enjoy tions. One undergraduate in SST the fellow committee members and seeing the program grow,” she said. 101, not interested in Delta Wedding, “My involvement on this board gives me a chance to be part of the world quietly told me, “Dude, you gotta of ideas.” Future Southern Studies students will be able to share Joyner’s ditch the Welty.” We have chosen devotion to the Center for years to come. not to do that. To make a gift to the Center, contact Nikki Neely Davis, development director, [email protected] or call 662-915-6678. Checks also can be Ted Ownby mailed to the University of Mississippi Foundation-CSSC, 406 University Ave., Oxford, MS 38655; and gifts can be made online at www.umfoun- dation.com/makeagift.

Rebecca Lauck Cleary

The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 3 J Center Events • Fall 2017 The Brown Bag Lecture Series takes place at noon in the Barnard Observatory lecture hall unless otherwise noted. To highlight the Center’s fortieth birthday, many of our events in 2017–18 will include Center faculty, staff, and alumni discussing their work. Other Center events will take place in Barnard Observatory, on the University of Mississippi campus, and elsewhere, as noted.

August 30 September 27 November 1 Brown Bag Lecture Brown Bag Lecture Brown Bag Lecture “Writing about Family Problems “El Sur Latino: Migration, Identity, “A Discussion of Beyond the Crossroads: and the Twentieth-Century South” and Incorporation” The Devil and the Blues Tradition” Ted Ownby Simone Delerme Adam Gussow

September 6, 7:00 p.m. September 29, 4:00 p.m. November 2, 3:00 p.m. Gilder-Jordan Lecture Mississippi Encyclopedia Event Mississippi Encyclopedia Event “Concrete Demands: The Search Book Mart and Cafe Carolyn Vance Smith Natchez for Black Power, Then and Now” Starkville, Mississippi Literary Research Center Rhonda Y. Williams Copiah-Lincoln Community Nutt Auditorium October 4 College University of Mississippi Brown Bag Lecture Wesson, Mississippi September 7, 5:00 p.m. “Introducing the Do Good Fund” November 8 David Wharton and Brooke White Mississippi Encyclopedia Event Brown Bag Lecture Delta Blues Museum October 5 “Bobbie Gentry’s Odes to Clarksdale, Mississippi Southern People, Southern Places: Mississippi” The Do Good Fund Exhibition Kristine McCusker September 11–12 Middle Tennessee State University David Wharton, Brooke White, SFA Grad Student Symposium: Jerry Siegel, Jill Frank, and Alan November 8, noon Foodways and Social Justice in Rothschild the South Barnard Observatory Mississippi Encyclopedia Event University of Mississippi History Is Lunch October 5–7 Mississippi Department of Archives September 21 Southern Foodways Symposium and History Jackson, Mississippi Brown Bag Lecture “El Sur Latino” “Mississippi in the Work of Oxford, Mississippi November 8 Sherwood Bonner” Katie McKee October 19 Mississippi Encyclopedia Event J. D. Williams Library Brown Bag Lecture Margaret Walker Center Archives and Special Collections Jackson State University A screening of An Outrage and Jackson, Mississippi September 22–23 conversation with filmmakers Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren Southern Studies Birthday Party November 15 and Reunion October 25 Brown Bag Lecture Barnard Observatory Brown Bag Lecture “Politics and Poetics: Writing about “‘That’s for the White Folks’: Race, the Twentieth-Century Appalachian Culture, and (Un)Making Place in South” the Rural South” Jessie Wilkerson Brian Foster

Page 4 Fall 2017 The Southern Register g Living Blues News SPECIAL 2017 Living Blues Awards Winners Inside! It seems fitting that the 250th issue of Living Blues celebrates the blues of OFFER FOR ® © Clarksdale, Mississippi—one of the Issue #250 Vol. 48, #4 true founts of the blues. For more than a hundred years the blues has SOUTHERN spewed from Coahoma County, and for 250 issues Living Blues has done its best to capture the music coming CLArkSdALe, REGISTER from there and hundreds of other places where blues culture exists. pLuS Mississippi Wonder City of the delta READERS! The blues thrives in and around Sunflower Clarksdale like almost no other place Fest Living Blues Awards Winners Inside! in the world. With a population of at 30 ® © just sixteen thousand, Clarksdale Issue #244 • Vol. 47, #4 $6.95 US $6.95 CAN thE JaCKson bluEs sCEnE has live blues music nearly every Christone “Kingfish” Ingram www.livingblues.com night of the year plus nearly a Anthony “Big A” Sherrod • Lee Williams dozen annual blues festivals—the granddaddy of them all being the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel articles we plan to Festival, which is celebrating its publish. (Truth be told, Jim was thirtieth anniversary this year. For going to cover the whole history of FEATURING: King Edward • dorothy MoorE three decades Sunflower Fest has Clarksdale blues in this one article, $6.95 US $6.95 CAN www.livingblues.com JEssE robinson • grady ChaMpion been a beautiful community event but when he hit ten pages and was EddiE Cotton • JJ thaMEs gEarshiftEr • JarEKus singlEton that has celebrated the blues of the only up to 1940 I knew we had Clarksdale area and the people who to come up with a different plan!) create it. It’s always free and always As usual, in our location issues Get 1 year of hot (!), but always a great time full of we also spotlight items of interest Living Blues great music. If you have never been, for blues fans, including festivals, you’ve been missing out. And for clubs, music stores, blues gravesites, for only $23.95! those of you who have been, there is and, of course, all of the best local ThaT’s righT — get 6 issues something new at Sunflower Fest this restaurants. year—air conditioning! That’s right, This issue couldn’t have happened of the world’s leading blues for the first time ever the festival will without the support of many in magazine for 20% off the have six indoor stages with acoustic Clarksdale. Special thanks to Shelley regular price of $29.95! music going on all day, providing a Ritter, Kappi Allen, Roger Stolle, great place to cool off from the often- Judy Flowers (who supplied us Breaking Out With Marcus Cartwright oppressive Mississippi Delta heat. with many of our historical photos ® © We take a look at the history of this from her 2016 book Clarksdale and Issue #245 • Vol. 47, #5 special festival. Coahoma County: Images of America), Our spotlight on Clarksdale also Jim O’Neal, and Panny Mayfield, Taj includes a look at some of its next who supplied many of the festival Willie Green Mahal a Step Back in Time generation of blues musicians and photos from her collection. Panny’s Griot of the Blues SliM harpo the music education programs that book of photography, Live from the The BrakeMan and The Wolf have spawned them. We explore Mississippi Delta, was just released by two of the funkiest juke joints in the the University Press of Mississippi.

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The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 5 Gammill Gallery Exhibition North Mississippi—2017

The photographs in this exhibi- tion are from last spring’s Southern Studies seminar in documentary photography. The semester-long assignment was for students to construct a visual inquiry of life in North Mississippi, both as lived and as displayed by the built environ- ment. In one sense, their task was to compile a photographic catalog of the region that might potentially be of use to future scholars. The students were encouraged to treat North Mississippi as 1) a physical place, 2) a cultural space reflecting local life and values, and 3) a site of human activity. They were also asked to value the ordinary and to concentrate on making pictures of James G. Thomas, Jr., Cafe, Bruce everyday life rather than focusing exclusively on the extraordinary. There were five students in the class: Nadia Alexis, Rebecca DeLuna, Anne Carter Stowe, Kristin Teston, and James G. Thomas, Jr. One advantage of it being such a small group was to give students the opportunity to contribute a sizable number of photographs in the final exhibit. Indeed, each of the five students has around fifteen photo- graphs in the exhibition. David Wharton

Kristin Teston, Checkers, Holly Springs

Page 6 Fall 2017 The Southern Register Nadia Alexis, Women, Oxford

Anne Carter Stowe, Red Dress, Holly Springs

Rebecca DeLuna, Butcher, Oxford

The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 7 SouthDocs Welcomes New Filmmaker John Rash John Rash is a filmmaker, photog- culture with fresh eyes. As I turn my rapher, and video artist from North lens to the stories and people in the Carolina who earned his MFA in American South, I am sure I will experimental and documentary art learn just as much about myself as I from Duke University in 2014. He do those I am documenting.” has worked as a freelance photogra- His work often explores cultural pher and college instructor for more outsiders and environmental topics than fifteen years, teaching both through what he describes as photography and video production. “nontraditional narratives and visual Rash is fluent in Mandarin storytelling.” John’s films have been Chinese and comes to the Center invited to screen at many interna- after spending the past three tional film festivals, including Full John Rash years living in Shanghai, China. Frame, Brooklyn Film Festival, “Experiencing life in a culture where Shanghai International Film Festival, I was the minority has deepened on my approach to my creative work Chicago Underground Film Festival, my respect for those who struggle and my relationships with others. Athens Film Festival, and the Green to find a life in America despite I’m excited to be involved with the Film Festival of Seoul. the advantages that benefit certain Center for the Study of Southern Examples of John’s previous groups over others,” he said. “Living Culture and the opportunity to look work can be viewed online at www in China had a substantial influence at my own country and my own .johnrash.com. Center to Host Filmmakers for a Screening of Documentary on Lynching HANNAH AYERS HANNAH The Center will host a Brown AYERS HANNAH Bag screening of An Outrage, a Filmmakers Hannah Ayers and documentary film on lynching in Lance Warren the American South, at noon on Thursday, October 19, in Barnard Observatory. Filmmakers Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren will intro- duce the film and take questions. They will also attend Andy Harper’s Hattie Lawson, a pastor and activist, Documenting the South in Film class leads the Moore’s Ford Movement, a following the screening. group seeking justice for four lynch- Filmed on location at lynching ings that took place in 1946. sites in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia, the film includes the memo- ries and perspectives of descendants, Forum, a four-day event featuring community activists, and scholars. new directions in history cinema, This unusual historical documentary cosponsored by the Smithsonian seeks to educate, even as it serves as and the NEH. The filmmakers are hundred thousand teachers starting a hub for action to remember and distributing the film through a partner- this fall as part of a new racial history reflect upon a long-hidden past. ship with the Southern Poverty Law initiative aimed at transforming the The film premiered at the Center. The Law Center will acquire teaching of slavery and its legacies. Smithsonian’s National Museum the film’s K-12 distribution rights, craft The Center is presenting the film of American History on March 11, curriculum to support it, and make it in partnership with the University of 2017, as part of the History Film available to its network of nearly five Mississippi Department of History.

Page 8 Fall 2017 The Southern Register Ralph Eubanks to Teach Southern Studies, English Courses

Author and journalist Ralph Second-year Southern Studies Eubanks returns to the University master’s student Holly Robinson of Mississippi campus—this time as enrolled in the course because she a visiting professor. He will teach thought it would be a good way to courses in Southern Studies, English, brush up on her image-analysis skills and Honors. ahead of her thesis research. “I’m a Eubanks is the author of Ever Is a popular culturist, so I enjoy looking Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi’s at visual imagery more than books Dark Past, which Washington Post book because there’s a lot more to say critic Jonathan Yardley named one about an image. Things aren’t as of the best nonfiction books of 2003. concrete, so you can be really specu- Eubanks has been a contributor lative in your analysis, which always for the Washington Post, the Chicago leads you to a more interesting idea- Tribune, Preservation, and National place,” Robinson said. Public Radio. He is a recipient of His class for the English depart- a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship ment is Civil Rights and Activism in from the John Simon Guggenheim Literature, which is slightly different Foundation and has been a fellow at from a class that he also taught at the New America Foundation. He Millsaps. It will examine works of is the former editor of the Virginia the work of Walker Evans and James literature that turn their focus on the Quarterly Review at the University of Agee and the impact it was having on image, life, and reality of black life Virginia, and last year he was the my own writing about the Mississippi during the civil rights movement, Eudora Welty Visiting Scholar in Delta,” he said. “At the time I was as well as in today’s second wave of Southern Studies at Millsaps College teaching a class on photography and activism. “One change this time is in Jackson, Mississippi. literature at Millsaps College, but I that I am teaching Richard Wright’s His SST 598 Special Topics course realized at the end of the class that I Native Son. I believe that Richard will examine the American South spent a great deal of time focused on Wright’s work, particularly the social through the visual art of photog- the South. So, when I was asked to realism of his work, deserves a reex- raphy as well as through the work teach at the University of Mississippi, amination,” Eubanks said. of writers who have found their I decided to adapt that class to focus Eubanks, who graduated from the inspiration in photography. James exclusively on the South.” University of Mississippi with a BA Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Eubanks hopes students will learn and the University of Michigan with Now Praise Famous Men will serve how history is imbedded in visual an MA in English language and litera- as a foundational work to examine images, as well as how to read a photo- ture, is looking forward to spending the ways the visual record of the graph. “Photographs are time capsules an extended amount of time on the American South is tied to writing of history and can tell us a great deal UM campus. “Although I spend a about the South, including novels, about the people and places captured great deal of time in Oxford, there is poetry, and journalism, particularly in them,” he said. “Also, I hope they a difference between being a resi- magazine journalism of the 1960s will see how photographs can be a dent of the university community in illustrated magazines such as Life testament to the relentless melting of and being a visitor,” he said. “I’m and Look. What connects the reading time. As Susan Sontag said, all photo- looking forward to being a part of for this course—and will be the focus graphs are memento mori. A photo- the community for a while. Plus, this of class discussions—is how authors graph captures another person’s—or a academic year is exactly forty years turn to photographs as a way to place’s—mortality, vulnerability, and after my senior year at Ole Miss, tie together the region’s visual and mutability. I’d like my students to which was the last time I spent an verbal traditions. think about how the visual image of extended amount of time on campus. Having long utilized of the work of the South has evolved over time and It’s good to come full circle.” Evans and Agee, Eubanks discussed reveals time’s impact on the landscape, them in a lecture in February 2016: as well as how visual images both Rebecca Lauck Cleary “I spoke at the Center last year about crush and reinforce southern myths.”

The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 9 SFA Oral History Project Documents Charlotte’s Central Avenue Corridor PETER TAYLORPETER Central Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina, reveals the city’s shifting demographics, from working-class textile mill employees in the early twentieth century, to immigrants from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean in the 1990s. These new southerners PETER TAYLORPETER

Nora Guerra of Guate-Linda, a Guatemalan restaurant Izzat Freitekh of La Shish Kabob PETER TAYLORPETER PETER TAYLORPETER

Caroline Coke of Island Grocery and Caribbean Restaurant

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Opportunistic Task Force, many factors lured immigrants to Charlotte, including the booming Tacos El Nevado banking industry in the 1990s. This led to a growing service- based economy and a strong entre- PETER TAYLORPETER revived strip malls and subdivi- preneurial culture. One in seven sions to shape a new Charlotte. Mecklenburg County residents are The Southern Foodways Alliance’s immigrants (14 percent). Half of Central Avenue Corridor Oral those arrived in Charlotte before History Project documents some of 2000, and one-half of those arrived those voices. Seventeen interviews from Latin America. These new tell the stories of entrepreneurs and southerners brought their experi- culinary professionals who craft and ences and their food traditions and sell everything from tacos to hummus planted them along Central Avenue, Pastries from Las Delicias bakery, to banh mi to Ethiopian coffee. a shifting New South corridor. owned and operated by Zhenia According to UNC-Charlotte’s Martinez Urban Institute and the Sara Wood

Page 10 Fall 2017 The Southern Register Southern People, Southern Places: The Do Good Fund to Exhibit Photographs in Gammill Gallery This Fall BRANDON THIBODEAUXBRANDON Photographs from the Do Good Fund’s photo collec- tion will be exhibited at various venues in Mississippi during the fall of 2017. Those venues include the Gammill Gallery (Southern People, Southern Places) from late September through mid-December, the UM Art Department’s Gallery 130 (NOW: Contemporary Southern Photography) during October, as well as at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gallery of Art and Design (Portraits of Southerners) October 12–December 12. There are smaller exhibits scheduled in several Water Valley venues and possibly one in Sumner. JERRY SIEGEL

(above) Harry Hope, Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 2010 (left) Shooter, Selma, Alabama, 2009 (below) St. Bernard Avenue (Sardine), 2014 SOPHIE LVOFFSOPHIE

The Do Good Fund is a public charity based in Columbus, Georgia. Since its founding in 2012, the Fund has focused on building a museum-quality collection of photographs taken in the American South since World War II. The collection ranges from works by more than a dozen Guggenheim Fellows to images by less well-known emerging photographers working in the region. Do Good’s mission is to make its collection of more than four hundred images broadly accessible through regional museums, nonprofit galleries, and nontraditional venues, and to encourage complimentary, community- based programming to accompany each exhibition. On October 4 Center director for documentary studies David Wharton and UM assistant professor of art Brooke White will introduce the Do Good Fund in a Brown Bag David Wharton. All four photographers have work in the Lecture in the Tupelo Room in Barnard Observatory, Do Good Fund’s photography collection. The panel will and on October 5 there will be a late-afternoon panel, be moderated by Alan Rothschild, the organizer of the also in Barnard Observatory, with guest photographers collection. Following the panel, there will be receptions at Jerry Siegel and Jill Frank, as well as Brooke White and the two on-campus galleries.

The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 11 Study the South CALL FOR PAPERS Publishes Work on Study the South A Center for the Study of Southern Iconic Southern Film Culture Publication On June 19, Study the South published a new essay by Isabel Machado, a Brazilian historian currently living in Monterrey, Mexico, while writing her Study the South, a peer-reviewed, PhD dissertation for the University of Memphis. multimedia, open-access journal Machado’s essay, “Revisiting Deliverance: The Sunbelt South, the 1970s published by the Center for the Masculinity Crisis, and the Emergence of the Redneck Nightmare Genre” Study of Southern Culture at presents a new view of the iconic film. According to Machado, Deliverance the University of Mississippi, “dialogues with past representations of underclass white southerners; reflects announces a general call for and questions the historical moment in which it was produced and consumed; papers. and, to this day, affects the way the region and its inhabitants are perceived Study the South exists to and depicted. It can be read as a reflection of the reconfiguration of southern encourage interdisciplinary identity during the rise of the Sunbelt, but also as an expression of the academic thought and discourse perceived masculinity crisis of the 1970s. In addition, although other, more on the culture of the American positive images of working-class white southerners were also emerging in the South. Editors welcome 1970s, the ‘redneck nightmare’ trope popularized by Deliverance became iconic submissions by faculty members, and enduring.” advanced graduate students, and professional scholars doing work in the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, music, literature, documentary studies, gender studies, religion, geography, media studies, race studies, ethnicity, folklife, and art to submit article abstracts or complete manuscripts. Final manuscripts and projects must attempt to build upon and expand the understanding of the American South in order to be considered for publication. To submit an original paper for consideration, please e-mail James G. Thomas, Jr. at [email protected]. Submissions must be previously Since its release, Deliverance has provoked passionate critiques, inspired unpublished. different analyses, and has become a cult phenomenon. “The imagery, stereo- For questions or additional types, and symbols produced by the film still inform popular perceptions information, please contact: of the US South,” Machado writes, “even by those who have never actually James G. Thomas, Jr. at watched it. Readings of Deliverance have tended to privilege one particular [email protected], or at interpretation, failing to fully grasp its relevance. The movie is a rich cultural 662-915-3374. Study the South is text that provides historians with multiple ways to analyze the South, particu- available via the Center’s website larly concepts such as southern identity and masculinity.” at www.studythesouth.org. Isabel Machado’s two master degrees—in history (University of South Alabama) and film studies (University of Iowa)—provided her the interdisci- plinary lens through which she approaches cultural history. Her current research uses Mardi Gras as a vehicle for understanding social and cultural changes in Mobile, Alabama, in the second half of the twentieth century.

Page 12 Fall 2017 The Southern Register j Mississippi Stories Celebrates First Year Online WARREN K. LEFFLER The Mississippi Stories website seeks to tell the complex story of Mississippi and Mississippians through multiple forms of docu- mentary practice: film, photog- raphy, oral history, and sound. The website presents work by students, staff, faculty, and alumni of the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture, including Center institutes and partners Living Blues magazine, the Southern Documentary Project, and the Southern Foodways Alliance. Mississippi Stories posts new stories periodically. Some of these are complete projects, and others are snapshots of works in prog- ress or outtakes from larger proj- ects. Some projects explore topics The mule train at “Resurrection City” in Washington, D.C. Image from “A outside the state of Mississippi, but Story of the Poor People’s Campaign Mule Train” all the documentarians learn and practice at the Center. Mississippi Stories launched in July of 2016. In celebration, here are with Webster by Chet Bush tells Passidomo’s class on southern food- some stories so far for 2017. that story. The oral history was a ways in the fall of 2016. Along with class project in Jessie Wilkerson’s the transcript and the edited video, “A Story of the Poor People’s Contemporary US History class in Tori wrote a short essay connecting Campaign Mule Train” the spring of 2016. the oral history to themes explored in class discussions and readings, The Southern Christian Leadership “An Oral History with Liz Stagg such as immigration, the “New Conference initiated the Poor of the Oxford Farmers’ Market South” as a construct, and women as People’s Campaign in 1968 to draw Store” bearers of food culture. awareness to the impoverished conditions in which many Americans Southern Studies grad student Tori “The In•vis•i•ble Oxford Project” lived and to lobby the federal DeLeone interviewed Liz Stagg government for greater access to jobs about the Farmer’s Market, a small Assistant professor of Southern and living wages. The demonstration store in Oxford, Mississippi, that Studies and anthropology Simone consisted of an elaborately planned offered local produce, meats, dairy, Delerme and her students devel- journey by bus and by mule train and other food items. Liz and her oped the In•vis•i•ble Oxford Project that began in Marks, Mississippi— husband owned and operated the and website in Southern Studies chosen for its status as the poorest store for twelve years. Her husband 301 during the spring semesters in town in the poorest county of the passed away in 2015, and Liz closed 2016 and 2017. The objective was poorest state in the nation—and the store in October 2016. Tori to capture the stories of community ended in Washington, D.C., at a sought to understand how Liz saw members and the observations of temporary campsite created on the her place in the community, and students conducting fieldwork in National Mall called “Resurrection what drove her to open, and close, order to create a historical record City.” the store. that documents place-identity, place- Eddie Lee Webster Jr. was part This oral history was conducted attachment, and the community of of the mule train. This oral history as a final project for Catarina Oxford.

The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 13 FACULTY PROFILE Adam Gussow Publishes New Book on the Devil in the Blues

Interview by Scott Barretta Johnson—about older generations’ crossroads—there are songs that say notions of the devil and hell. “I am the devil.” There’s the devil Adam Gussow is an associate I asked Gussow about some of his showing up in a range of places that professor of English and Southern most provocative arguments. have nothing to do with selling your Studies at the University of soul, and they’re not just southern Mississippi whose latest book is Scott Barretta: What’s the signifi- places. Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil in the cance of your title, and what is it that Blues Tradition (University Press of you are going “beyond”? SB: You also challenge prevailing North Carolina), a survey that occu- conceptions of the devil in the blues. pied seven years of research. Gussow Adam Gussow: People who know has also grappled extensively with the nothing else about the blues know AG: One important thing I had to do devil in his parallel career as a profes- about Robert Johnson and the cross- was to figure out to what extent was sional blues musician—for over thirty roads, and they’ve heard that phrase the devil of the blues the Christian years he’s recorded and toured inter- “the devil’s music.” I wanted to devil, to what extent it shifts from the nationally with Sterling “Mr. Satan” understand that phrase and where it slavery to the post-slavery period, and Magee, a relationship he addressed in comes from, what it meant to people to what extent African source mate- his memoir Mr. Satan’s Apprentice. who use it. rial is showing up in this blues devil. In his new book Gussow explores And when I looked at the full Contemporary scholars coming from a remarkably wide range range of blues songs an African American studies perspec- of literature, that evoke the devil and tive such as Samuel Floyd, in a weird addressing blues hell I found most of way they’re of a piece with the Robert songs about those are not about the Johnson scholars—they want the

the devil from W.STEVEN LIKENS the ’20s to the present, as well as expressions of the supernatural in West African cultures among enslaved African Americans in the decades between Emancipation and the birth of the blues. Much of Gussow’s previous work has been squarely in literacy criticism, but here he draws considerably from sociological community studies by scholars including Hortense Powdermaker, John Dollard, and Charles S. Johnson. They all addressed a growing cynicism among southern African American youth in the first half of the twen- Adam Gussow tieth century—the cohort of Robert

Page 14 Fall 2017 The Southern Register blues devil to be Legba, something SB: Another use of the devil is the conversation is because you’ve inherited from a particular [Yoruban] political, a coded way of talking got freedom. cultural region. about the white man or the system of There’s a category of songs in I do make an argument that Legba segregation. which men are bemoaning their shows up in some blues songs, but women’s faithlessness, they’re other songs are coming from a AG: I argue that this comes from bemoaning other men coming in very different place. The devil is a slavery. If you go back and look at and trying to take their women, shape shifter, and we should not be the spirituals, what struck me was which is to say other men behaving surprised that the devil shows up in a the concreteness of the metaphors, like devils. And I talk about it from number of guises. how the devil was a figure who the women’s perspective, women was chaining you, who was appre- complaining about their men. Bessie SB: The stereotypical crossroads hending you in the woods, how these Smith’s “Devil’s Gonna Get You” is imagery is of a male in the country- songs were a coded way of invoking a good example of that. She says, side, but you argue that the notion of the patrollers. And what interested “the devil’s gonna get you” when a the devil in the blues was developed me were the continuities between man has disappointed her, when a by women in urban settings during that and what goes on in the Jim man has been out playing around, the roaring ’20s. Crow South—you had to maintain spending time with other women. the code. I talk about plausible And she’s talking like a minister— AG: Victorians were looking down deniability. “the devil’s gonna get you, just as at these young people, the flappers, And I look at a couple of specific sure as I am born.” the lost generation in the aftermath songs. For me the most resonant one is of World War I and saying they’re “Hell Ain’t But a Mile and a Quarter,” SB: You took off your English going to hell. It’s a cynical thing—the the Big Bill Broonzy song, which I professor hat and put on the investi- devil is a figure that the younger talk about being a coded invocation gative reporter hat to address blues generation takes not as something of a black man’s voyage across the tourism in Clarkdale, notably the to be afraid of, but something to tracks, about what it’s like to go into genesis of “the crossroads” marker embrace, the devil as a kind of a Jim Crow town—hell is right there, at the intersection of Highways 61 master of the revels. it’s just a mile and a quarter away. If and 49. I talk about the very first devil’s you’re Big Bill Broonzy, you couldn’t blues, “Done Sold My Soul to the say out loud, “The white man’s the AG: I wanted to understand every- Devil,” by Clara Smith, a migrant devil.” And when Big Bill says “next thing I could about that location from the South, in 1924: “I’ve got thing I do, I want to marry the devil’s called “the crossroads” in contem- lots of gold, got it from the devil, but daughter”—in interviews he would say porary Clarksdale, to find out if he won’t let me alone / I’m stub- that the only way the southern black there was any reason to think Robert born and I’m hateful, I’d die before man could get back at the white man Johnson had any connection to that I run / I drink carbolic acid, and I is to take the white woman. If I’m location. And what started the ball totes a Gatling gun / I’ve done sold right, that’s a pretty provocative thing rolling was the minutes of a meeting my soul, sold it to the devil, and my to say. between the mayor and the board heart done turned to stone.” of commissioners in which the city What kind of lesson is here? What SB: In the fourth chapter you attorney drafted a resolution that I argue is that it’s a kind of northern address how the devil is evoked in would lead eventually to a law in migrant version of the blues idea, response to the new freedoms expe- 1999, and it used the word devil that you can create an identity by rienced by African Americans in the twice—basically, “Be it resolved that going bad all the way. But it’s also wake of Emancipation. Robert Johnson sold the soul at our positioned relative to a conversation crossroads.” about imperiled black female virtue, AG: I talk about the way that I thought, when in American about what happens to young black the devil ends up mediating post- history has the devil been invoked migrant women from the South slavery romance. As Angela Davis favorably in official government docu- when they get to the big cities. And says, travel and sexuality become ments? I said if it’s gonna happen, what’s important about the song is very important themes in the blues, it’s gonna happen in Clarksdale in that, on the one hand, she’s voicing because after Emancipation African the late ’90s when they’re trying to it with a kind of sadness, but on the American men and women are free save themselves using blues tourism other hand she’s proclaiming it. to travel and to choose one another. and rebrand themselves as the devil’s I say the reason the devil comes into home in the Bible Belt.

The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 15 ALUM PROFILE Alumna Amy Wood Honored with Prestigious Andrew Mellon Fellowship In this issue of the Southern Register, we focus on Southern Studies Amy Wood alumna Amy Wood, who special- izes in American cultural history in the late nineteenth and early EMMA HORATH twentieth centuries and the history of the US South. She is the author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890– 1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), which examines visual representations of lynching and the construction of white supremacy in the Jim Crow era. Lynching and Spectacle won the Lillian Smith Book Award and was a finalist for theLos Angeles Times Book Award in History. She was also the co-guest editor of an issue of Mississippi Quarterly on lynching, representation, and She said her of preconceptions. I like watching memory (2008) and Southern Studies them discover the South in all its the volume editor of MA degree informs complexities over the course of the the Violence volume of her teaching in semester. And three, the interdisci- The New Encyclopedia several different plinary training that Southern Studies of Southern Culture ways. “One, I’m gave me shapes my teaching and my (University of North teaching in Illinois, scholarship to this day. I was hired Carolina Press, 2011). the land of Lincoln. in my department to fill a position in Wood earned her My students might US cultural and intellectual history, BA in humanities from think of them- and so, by nature, my courses inte- Wesleyan University, selves as midwest- grate literature, film, social science, her MA in Southern Studies from erners, but largely they don’t have et cetera into the study of history. But the University of Mississippi, and a strong sense of regional identity,” even in my US history survey courses her PhD in American studies from Wood said. “I’m critically aware of or my courses in southern history, I Emory University. As a history regionalism, not only because of my use interdisciplinary sources.” professor at Illinois State University, Southern Studies background, but Wood’s 1995 Southern Studies she teaches a variety of classes—from because I’m a New Englander who thesis was “The Fiery Cross Carved the US history survey to methods has lived for many years in other upon the Breast: Sacred Violence classes for both undergraduates and regions. I try to make my students and the Ku Klux Klan, 1915–1930,” graduate students to upper-level aware of regional differences in my and said she enjoys her career classes in American cultural and courses in broader US history. Two, in academia. “You live the life of intellectual history. She also teaches most simply, I teach the two courses the mind, and you get a degree of a course on slavery and the Old in southern history. Many of my autonomy you don’t get in most South, a special topics course on the students admit that they didn’t have other professions,” Wood said. “But history of the US South from 1877 that strong an interest in the South the market is incredibly tight and to the present, and is the graduate when they enrolled in the course, or competitive right now; tenure track director for the department. they admit to coming in with all sorts jobs are scarce, so most people who

Page 16 Fall 2017 The Southern Register Southern Studies get PhDs don’t get to have that kind of plum career. It’s Alum Named Acting even more difficult for people coming out of interdisci- plinary programs. My PhD was in American Studies, but I was lucky to find a job in a history department. I had to Chairman of National have a foot firmly planted in the discipline of history to market myself as a historian.” Endowment for the In support of her research, she received a prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to support her study of Humanities the nation’s evolving attitudes toward criminals and spent six weeks this summer at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. On July 28, Southern “I’m currently on a Mellon research fellowship at Studies alumnus Jon the Huntington Library in Southern California, where Parrish Peede was I’m studying the rise of criminology as a science and its named the acting impact on the prison reform movement, known as the chairman of the ‘new penology,’ of the early twentieth century,” Wood National Endowment said. “I’m interested in the ideas that bore upon both for the Humanities criminology and the new penology, such as heredity (NEH). Peede joined versus environment debates, the evolutionary ideas of NEH in April and Darwin and Spencer, eugenics, and ideas about race. was the senior They have a vast collection here of literature related to deputy chairman this topic. And, I’ve been looking at the papers of Jack of the agency. London, who will be a key figure in my book. He was Previously, he had socialist and also a been appointed to social Darwinist, and senior leadership Jon Parrish Peede a former convict, who roles at the National was interested in the Endowment for prison reform move- the Arts. From 2003 to 2007 he served as counselor ment and who, in his to NEA chairman Dana Gioia. From 2007 to 2011 work, exposed prison he oversaw the NEA’s funding of literary organiza- atrocities. He was also tions and fellowships to creative writers and transla- deeply interested in our tors. For seven years, he led writing workshops for animal natures and its US troops in Afghanistan, Bahrain, England, Italy, effect on crime.” Kyrgyzstan, the Persian Gulf, and on domestic bases. Although this book His prior positions include publisher of the Virginia project is not focused Quarterly Review at the University of Virginia, director on the South, she is also of communications at Millsaps College, and editor coediting a book titled at Mercer University Press with a focus on the Crime and Punishment in humanities. the Jim Crow South, which He has served on the national council of the is forthcoming from the Margaret Walker Center for the Study of the African University of Illinois American Experience, Jackson State University; Press. “Still, even in this current book, which is a national the advisory committee of the Virginia Festival of project, I am paying attention to regional difference, so my the Book, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; background as a ‘Southernist’ still shapes my work,” Wood and the poet laureate selection committee, state of said. “I’ve spent time in the archives in Texas and South Mississippi, office of the governor. Carolina so I can determine the impact of the prison reform Peede also holds a BA from Vanderbilt University movement in the South. And, of course, I’m also looking and is the coeditor of Inside the Church of Flannery at the West (California), in addition to New York and O’Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Massachusetts. The regional differences are striking, yet it’s Fiction, published by Mercer University Press in 2007. also fascinating to see how the same ideas percolate and take shape in distinct ways in different regions.”

Rebecca Lauck Cleary

The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 17 Center for the Study of Southern Culture: A Short History of the First Forty Years Established in 1977 at the University of Mississippi with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Center for the Study of Southern Culture was initially proposed by history professor Robert Haws and philosophy professor Michael Harrington, who suggested creating a place where scholars would study the South’s literature, history, and music with a specific focus on race relations. The university’s vice chancellor for academic affairs, Art DeRosier, and chancellor, Porter L. Fortune Jr., supported the proposal, and folk- lorist William R. Ferris, a Vicksburg native, became the Center’s founding director, serving from 1978 to 1998. Charles Reagan Wilson followed October 10, 1992: Bill Ferris sums up the Center’s mission during the dedica- Ferris, holding the position through tion of the restored Barnard Observatory, flanked by (from left) the Honorable 2007, and Ted Ownby became Frank Crosthwait; Chancellor R. Gerald Turner; Arthur B. Lewis, Dean director the following year. Emeritus, College of Liberal Arts; and the Reverend Duncan Gray Jr. The Center’s first program was the 1977 Eudora Welty Symposium, The Center for the Study of which featured the Mississippi author in person. An interdisciplinary Southern Culture Turns Forty, program working with university departments and faculty, including Hosts Weekend of Activities anthropology and sociology, English, history, literature, art, and political The Center for the Study of Southern Culture had its first event in 1977, science, the Center offers more than so we’re planning a birthday event to celebrate forty years of Southern sixty courses covering life, culture, Studies. Save the date for the evening of Friday, September 22, through and heritage in the American South. the afternoon of Saturday, September 23. There will be events in Barnard Although it began with a focus on Observatory and in Oxford. southern US culture and history as a All alumni, students, staff, faculty, and friends of the Center for the Study of microcosm of the American expe- Southern Culture are invited. rience, the Center has broadened Discussions on Saturday will begin with one question: How is Southern its scope to encompass the future Studies part of our alumni’s teaching, writing and reading, editing, documentary of southern culture, the Global work, art and music, activism, their work in law, business, religion, government, South, and challenges to long-held restaurants, farms, libraries, and their personal, family, and community lives? conceptions of what is southern. The We hope Southern Studies alumni will have intriguing answers to the question. Center found a physical home on There will be a Friday evening gathering, at a time and setting to be the university campus in the historic announced, two Saturday panel discussions that involve everyone, and plenty Barnard Observatory, built in the of time for discussion. Saturday events in Barnard Observatory will include a late 1850s and renovated in 1989–91. student photography exhibition and some short films. Official events will end One of the first regional centers by late Saturday afternoon. The Center has reserved a block of rooms at the Inn in the nation, the Center, with an at Ole Miss for Friday night. To receive the group rate, request the “Southern NEH grant, developed a bachelor Studies Reunion” rate and make your reservation by August 21. of arts program in Southern Studies Visit the Center’s website, follow the Center’s Facebook page, or contact and a master of arts program that Ted Ownby at [email protected] for more information. accommodates about thirty students

Page 18 Fall 2017 The Southern Register JIM CLEVELAND JIM (left) From 1988: A poetry volume soon joined the fiction and nonfiction volume of the Mississippi Writers anthology shown here. Displaying the volumes (left to right) are Tom Wacaster, of the Phil Hardin Foundation; Dorothy Abbott, anthology editor; and Bill Ferris, then-Center director. (below) May 15, 1989: Charles Reagan Wilson holds the first copy of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture sent from UNC Press. BARBARA BLANSETT BARBARA

from around the world. Awards are Williams Library. The Center began presented to students for excellence the Southern Media Collection, now in research papers on the South, with housed in the library’s visual archive, special prizes for the best master’s and the Blues Archive, the largest theses and works on music and public blues collection in the world. documentary media. The Gammill The Center’s work led to the Gallery in Barnard Observatory creation of several affiliated institu- displays the work of students and tions, such as the Southern Foodways teachers as well as visiting collections Alliance, which holds its annual from across the nation. Much of the Southern Foodways Symposium Center’s research is housed in the on the university campus each fall, Department of Special Collections and the William Winter Institute for has also partnered with the univer- and Archives at the university’s J. D. Racial Reconciliation. The Center sity’s Southern Documentary Project and has published several periodi- JAMES G. THOMAS, JR. G. THOMAS, JAMES cals, most successfully Living Blues, a magazine devoted to blues musi- cians and the culture that produced them, founded in 1983. The Center helped establish Highway 61, a blues program on Mississippi Public Radio, with Ferris as the first host. Wilson and Ferris edited the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989), which won the Dartmouth Prize from the American Library Association as the year’s best reference work. From 2006 to 2013, the Center produced the twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Other Center publications include Dorothy Abbott’s multivolume Mississippi Writers (1985–91) and the online journal Study the South. The Center is recognized for its February 27, 2009: Living Blues staff, past and present, with Terry “Harmonica” worldwide symposia and confer- Bean, at the Living Blues Trail marker unveiling ceremony: (left to right) Amy ences, including a Richard Wright van Singel, David Nelson, Scott Barretta, Terry “Harmonica” Bean, Jim O’Neal, conference in Paris and a William and Brett Bonner

The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 19 DANIEL LEE SHERMAN LEE DANIEL Eudora Welty Awards for Creative

April 8, 2000: David Wharton signs copies of his new book, The Soul of a Writing Presented Small Texas Town during the Seventh Oxford Conference for the Book Each year the Center for the Study of Southern Culture presents the Eudora Welty Awards for Creative Writing to Mississippi high school students during the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Established Faulkner conference in Moscow. The and endowed by the late Francis Patterson of Tupelo, the awards are given University of Mississippi campus in for creative writing in either prose or poem form. The prize for first place Oxford has hosted most conferences, is $500 and the prize for second place is $250. In addition, each winner however, including the Faulkner and also received a copy of the newly published Mississippi Encyclopedia. Yoknapatawpha Conference, the This year’s first-place Welty Award went to Lilly Hunt from Northpoint Oxford Conference for the Book, Christian School in Southaven for her story “Bulletin Board Dragon.” the Southern Foodways Symposium, Regarding the winning the Future of the South Conference, Eudora Welty Awards winner story, the judges said that the Blues Today Symposium, and Emma McNeel they appreciated it for its a weekly lecture series, among “clear, spare prose style of others. Funding for the Center’s storytelling and rhythm, as projects has come from the National well as the imaginative char- Endowment for the Humanities, the acters who were different Mississippi Arts Commission, the from each other and the Mississippi Humanities Council, the norm.” Ford Foundation, the Phil Hardin This year’s second-place Foundation, and Friends of the Center. Welty Award is Emma An advisory committee has assisted McNeel from St. Andrews the Center’s work since its beginning. Episcopal School in Jackson for her poem “Roots.” The This short history can also be found, judges of the awards stated along with entries on Frederick A. P. that the poem successfully Barnard, William Faulkner, William used experimentation with Ferris, Living Blues, and the University form. Its “engagement with of Mississippi, in The Mississippi the elemental forces of being human distinguished itself from the crowd of Encyclopedia, recently published by the entries by having an unusual cadence.” University Press of Mississippi. Rebecca Lauck Cleary made the awards presentation in Nutt Auditorium on the University of Mississippi campus on Sunday, July Anna F. Kaplan 23. McNeel attended the ceremony with her family. Hunt was unable to attend. To see a list of past winners of the Eudora Welty Awards, visit the JAMES G. THOMAS, JR. G. THOMAS, JAMES Center’s website. The Center congratulates the winners of this year’s awards.

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Page 20 Fall 2017 The Southern Register eE Twenty-Fifth Oxford Conference for the Book University of Mississippi • Oxford, Mississippi March 21–23, 2018 The Twenty-Fifth Oxford Conference for the Book (OCB) authors presenting that day. The Wednesday and Friday is set for March 21–23, 2018, to bring together fiction signings will be at Off Square Books, and the Thursday and nonfiction writers, journalists, poets, publishers, signing will be before and after Thacker Mountain Radio. teachers, and students for three stimulating days of read- The Children’s Book Festival (CBF) will take place at the ings, lectures, panels, workshops, and social events that Ford Center for Performing Arts. The goal of the CBF is celebrate the written word. to give each area first- and fifth-grader a book of his or her Recent programs have included sessions on southern own, which they will read along with classmates and their foodways, Appalachian studies, poetry, creative nonfiction, teacher. Committees made up of local school librarians, Mississippi and southern history, gender studies, biog- teachers, and representatives from the Lafayette County raphy, sports, comics, and photography, among numerous Literacy Council (sponsor of the first grade), Junior Auxiliary other topics. OCB partner Square Books will host several (sponsor of the fifth grade), and Square Books Jr. choose sessions of author readings and conversations. the books for each grade. During the OCB, the authors will The slate of speakers has not been released, but the present programs for the children at the Ford Center. We’ll complete program will soon be posted on the Center’s announce the authors for the 2018 festival later this fall. website. The conference is open to the public without The next Southern Register will have a detailed schedule, charge. Reservations and advance payment are required a complete list of authors, and more information about for the opening-night reception at the Isom Place on programs. For up-to-the-minute information, call 662-915- Wednesday, March 21. 3374, visit www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com, Thacker Mountain Radio will have a special OCB show on “like” the OCB on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ the Oxford Square at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 22. OxfordConferencefortheBook, or e-mail conference Square Books will host book signings each evening for the director James G. Thomas, Jr. at [email protected].

CONTRIBUTORS In Memoriam Scott Barretta is an instructor of sociology and anthropology at the Clarence Mohr University of Mississippi, a writer-researcher for the Mississippi Blues Trail, and the former editor of Living Blues magazine. October 3, 1946– August 5, 2017 Brett J. Bonner is the editor of Living Blues magazine. Anne Davis Percy Rebecca Lauck Cleary is the Center’s senior staff assistant and website January 1, 1940– administrator. She received a BA in journalism from the University of August 21, 2017 Mississippi and is currently at work on her MA in Southern Studies. Joan Wylie Hall is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Shirley Jackson: Studies in Short Fiction and the editor of Conversations with Audre Lorde and Conversations with Natasha Trethewey. Anna F. Kaplan is a PhD student in history at American University. Ted Ownby, director of the Center, holds a joint appointment in Southern Studies and history. Becca Walton is the Center’s associate director for projects. David Wharton is the Center’s director of documentary studies and assistant professor of Southern Studies. Sara Wood is an oral historian with the Southern Foodways Alliance.

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exchanges by facilitating trans- disciplinary conversations about Southern Studies scholarship. The fourteen original essays in Navigating Souths articulate questions about the significances of the South as a theoretical and literal “home” base for social science and humanities researchers. They also examine challenges faced by researchers who identify as Southern Studies scholars, as well as by those who live and work in the regional South, and show how researchers have responded to these challenges. In doing so, this book seeks to reframe the field of Southern Studies as it is currently being practiced by social science and humanities scholars and thus reshape historical and cultural conceptualizations of the region. Navigating Souths: The volume is edited by Michele Grigsby Coffey, instructor of history organizations. The authors analyze Transdisciplinary at the University of Memphis, and the financing, production, marketing, Jodi Skipper, assistant professor of and distribution of religious goods and Explorations of a US anthropology and Southern Studies services and the role of wealth and Region at the University of Mississippi. economic organization in sustaining and even shaping worship, charity, Edited by Michele Grigsby philanthropy, institutional growth, and Coffey and Jodi Skipper. missionary work. Treating religion and The Business Turn in business holistically, their essays show Athens: University of Georgia American Religious that American religious life has always Press, 2017. 288 pages, been informed by business practices. $64.95 cloth, $64.95 ebook. History Laying the groundwork for further Edited by Amanda Porterfield, investigation, the authors show how Reshaping Southern Studies through American business has functioned as scholarly collaboration and fresh Darren Grem, and John a domain for achieving religious goals. perspectives Corrigan. New York: Oxford Indeed they find that religion has University Press, 2017. 264 historically been more powerful when The work of considering, imag- interwoven with business. ining, and theorizing the US South pages, $99.00 cloth, $35 Chapters on Mormon enterprise, in regional, national, and global paperback. Jewish philanthropy, Hindu gurus, contexts is an intellectual project that Native American casinos, and the has been going on for some time. A holistic treatment of the influence of wedding of business wealth to Scholars in history, literature, and American business practice on religion conservative Catholic social teaching other disciplines have developed demonstrate the range of new studies an advanced understanding of the Business has received little attention in stimulated by the business turn in historical, social, and cultural forces American religious history, although it American religious history. Other that have helped to shape the US has profound implications for under- chapters show how evangelicals South. However, most of the debates standing the sustained popularity and joined neo-liberal economic prac- on these subjects have taken place ongoing transformation of religion in tice and right-wing politics to reli- within specific academic disciplines, the United States. This volume offers gious fundamentalism to consolidate with few attempts to cross-engage. a wide-ranging exploration of the wealth and power, and how they Navigating Souths broadens these business aspects of American religious developed marketing campaigns and

Page 22 Fall 2017 The Southern Register organizational strategies that trans- of twentieth-century magazines, formed the American religious land- journals, newspapers, and other scape. Included are essays exposing periodicals (from pulp to avant- the moral compromises religious garde), in the history of modern organizations have made to succeed readers and readerships, and in the as centers of wealth and influence, construction and cultural politics of and the religious beliefs that ratio- literary authorship. nalize and justify these compromises. Several contributors focus on Still others examine the application Faulkner’s sensational 1931 novel of business practices as a means of Sanctuary to illustrate the author’s sustaining religious institutions and multifaceted relationship to the expanding their reach, and look at print ecology of his time, tracing the controversies over business practices novel’s path from the wellsprings within religious organizations, and of Faulkner’s artistic vision to the the adjustments such organizations novel’s reception among reviewers, have made in response. Together, the tastemakers, intellectuals, and essays collected here offer new ways other readers of the early 1930s. of conceptualizing the interdepen- Other essayists discuss Faulkner’s dence of religion and business in the early notices, the Saturday Review United States, establishing multiple of Literature, Saturday Evening Post, paths for further study of their inter- men’s magazines of the 1950s, and twined historical development. Cold War modernism. The book is edited by Amanda and Yoknapatawpha Series, Faulkner The volume is edited by Jay Porterfield, the Robert A. Spivey and Print Culture, surveys various Watson, Howry Professor of Professor of Religion and History aspects of William Faulkner’s Faulkner Studies and professor at Florida State University; John publishing history in print cultures of English at the University Corrigan, the Lucius Moody and publishing houses across his of Mississippi; Jaime Harker, Bristol Distinguished Professor of career as writer. His ventures into University of Mississippi professor of Religion and professor of history print culture began far from the literature and director of the Sarah at Florida State University; and world of “little magazines” such as Isom Center for Women and Gender Darren Grem, assistant professor of the Double Dealer in New Orleans Studies; and James G. Thomas, Jr., history and Southern Studies at the or highbrow New York publishing associate director at the Center for University of Mississippi. houses such as Boni & Liveright and the Study of Southern Culture. Random House—publishers with which he would later maintain a long and fruitful publishing relation- Faulkner and Print ship. With this diverse publishing Culture history in mind, Faulkner and Print Culture explores Faulkner’s multi- Edited by Jay Watson, faceted engagements, as writer and Jaime Harker, and James reader, with the United States and G. Thomas, Jr. Jackson: international print cultures of his era, along with how these cultures University Press of have mediated his relationship with Mississippi, 2017. 241 various twentieth- and twenty-first- pages, $65.00 printed century audiences. These essays, originally casebinding. presented as papers at the 2015 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha A fascinating survey of Faulkner’s Conference in Oxford, address the publishing history with periodicals and place of Faulkner and his writings NEW! publishing houses in the creation, design, publishing, From the University Press of marketing, reception, and Mississippi and the Center for the The new volume in the Faulkner collecting of books, in the culture Study of Southern Culture

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A Literary History of including Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, an early chancellor Mississippi of the University of Mississippi. Edited by Lorie Watkins. The genre, says Piacentino, “paved the way for a more real- Jackson: University Press of istic kind of American writing, Mississippi, 2017. 309 pages. emphasizing the vernacular $40.00 cloth. idiom of southern folk and a transgressive subject matter that deviated from the polite and Published in this bicentennial year, A proper standards of the early Literary History of Mississippi provides nineteenth century.” the first extensive study of the state’s Ellen Weinauer’s “Literature literature. An ambitious undertaking of the Civil War: Mississippi by editor Lorie Watkins and seven- Writes the Confederate Nation” teen essayists, much of the volume describes the responses of many follows a chronological course, from “educated white Mississippians” the beginnings up to the present. In to the harsh reality of war. In standard southern literature text- diaries, poetry, and fiction, books, these beginnings are identified women like Sarah Dorsey and as works by historians, politicians, and men like Samuel Berryhill practitioners of the plantation school worked “to bolster support for of fiction. Unexpectedly and refresh- the Confederate cause and to ingly, the first essay inA Literary make sense of themselves as History of Mississippi is Greg O’Brien’s “Indigenous citizens of a new nation,” rather than citizens of a single Mississippi Literature.” state. Weinauer lists less-known Mississippi contempo- Remarking that “literature in Mississippi was raries of Dorsey and Berryhill to set “the groundwork preserved” for “thousands of years” in the oral stories for future research and writing.” Following in sharp of Native Americans, O’Brien emphasizes tales of contrast is the volume’s fourth essay, “Many Thousands origin, migration, and agriculture by the Choctaws, Gone: The Mississippi Slave Narratives” by Lorie Chickasaws, and Natchez. The chapter concludes with Watkins and Claude Pruitt. Readers of fugitive slave several paragraphs on nineteenth- through twenty-first- narratives by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs century poets and fiction writers of Mississippi Indian will be intrigued to learn of an 1848 narrative by Henry descent, including LeAnne Howe, a former Grisham Watson, a Mississippi slave who escaped by ship in New writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi. Orleans. Despite problems of transmission and memory, Appropriately, O’Brien prefaces his essay with an the hundreds of Works Progress Administration inter- epigraph from the story “Yazoo Dusk” by Choctaw- views conducted between 1936 and 1938 with former Cherokee author Louis Owens: “Those teachers never Mississippi slaves present a “multivocal narrative” that knew anything about the real stories, the ones my tells “the same story viewed from many perspectives.” grandmother, my apokni, told me.” Thomas J. Richardson speculates that Mississippi’s Comic trickster tales described by O’Brien have “special history of slavery, racism, poverty, violence, and Caucasian parallels in the volume’s second essay, “Old defeat” influenced the perception that the turn of the Southwest Humor” by Ed Piacentino. From 1833 to 1861, century was a low point for the arts. His essay, “Reading Mississippians supplied a single newspaper, the Spirit the Bozart in the Sahara: Mississippi Literature and of the Times, with 462 pieces about hunters, conmen, Culture, 1890–1920,” counters the popular escapist genre itinerant lawyers, preachers, and other frontier char- of “historical costume romance” with the period’s much acters—more southwestern humor than any other state more substantial works by suffragist Belle Kearney and contributed to the New York sporting journal. Piacentino antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, who was born a slave. discusses five of the most popular Mississippi humorists, Emphasizing the cotton economy in a chapter entitled

Page 24 Fall 2017 The Southern Register “Modernism in Mississippi,” David A. Davis relates such social factors as ruralism and segregation to the state’s UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI slow modernization. “Paradoxically,” says Davis, “experi- ences of poverty and oppression” led to “riveting cultural products,” both in blues music and in the “blues-inflected modernism” of writers like William Faulkner, Richard Live from the Wright, George Washington Lee, and Robert Rylee. Mississippi Delta As if to illustrate Davis’s insight, five major authors of Panny Flautt Mayfield the midcentury are the subjects of individual essays at the A treasure trove of physical center of A Literary History of Mississippi: “William photographs of musicians in Faulkner’s Mississippi-Writing” by Theresa M. Towner, the cradle of the blues “Eudora Welty: Mississippi Cosmopolite” by Suzanne Marrs, “‘The Seeds of Devilment’: Figuring the South in Richard Wright’s Black Boy” by Donald M. Shaffer Jr., “Thomas Lanier ‘Tennessee’ Williams” by Robert Bray, Black Boys Burning and “Margaret Walker: A Prophet for Her People” by The 1959 Fire at the Patsy J. Daniels. Arkansas Negro Boys Writers of the next generation were shaped by this Industrial School literary legacy, as Ed Croom’s cover photograph of Grif Stockley Faulkner’s typewriter implies. But authors of the past The devastating, tragic half-century were also formed by the racial, political, consequences of structural and natural crises suggested in Taylor Hagood’s essay and institutional racism in a segregated boys’ prison “Civil Rights, Vietnam, Hurricanes, and Postmodern work farm Blues: Contemporary Mississippi Fiction Writers.” From Walker Percy and Elizabeth Spencer to Jesmyn Ward and Brad Watson, Hagood surveys a striking variety of authors and works. Terrence T. Tucker’s essay title— “Humor, Fantasy, and Myth: Dramatic Marginalized Emmett Till Voices and Mississippi’s America”—is similarly wide- The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled ranging, and his references to modern and contemporary the Civil Rights Movement theatre encompass Tennessee Williams, Alfred Uhry’s Devery S. Anderson Broadway adaptation of Welty’s Robber Bridegroom, and Foreword by Julian Bond James Franco’s recent film adaptations of Faulkner A gripping reexamination of novels. His focus, however, is dramatist Beth Henley’s the abduction and murder “unflinching, nonromanticized portrait of violence that galvanized the civil and despair and loneliness in the South,” particularly rights movement in Crimes of the Heart. Twentieth through twenty-first- century poets are the subject of Daniel Cross Turner’s essay on “Lyric Mississippi: Modern and Contemporary Poetries.” Although he mentions many writers, from Sterling Plumpp to current Mississippi poet laureate and High Cotton University of Mississippi professor Beth Ann Fennelly, Four Seasons in the Turner elaborates on six other poets, most notably the Mississippi Delta African American author Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer Gerard Helferich Prize winner who served recent terms as poet laureate A paean to the vanishing for both the nation and the state. family cotton farm Nonfiction literature is the topic for Lisa Hinrichsen in “The Situated Self: Regional Belonging and the Autobiographical Impulse” and for Ted Ownby in “J. F. H. Claiborne and Dunbar Rowland: Reading Their Surveys of Mississippi History.” Hinrichsen cites the power of autobiography in “illuminating the impact ALSO AVAILABLE AS EBOOKS of differences of class, gender, race, and ethnicity on identity development and complicating narratives of the communal past with the specificity of individual memo- www.upress.state.ms.us ries”—from Civil War accounts of Mississippi battles to 800-737-7788 the “contemporary boom in memoirs,” among them

SouthernRegisterFall2017.indd 1 8/10/17 8:45 AM The Southern Register Fall 2017 Page 25 Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss by Frederick a teacher, raised her in Durham, North Carolina. Under and Steven Barthelme and On Fire by Oxford writer- her aunt’s influence, Murray was sensitive to the injustice fireman Larry Brown. Ownby, director of the University of Jim Crow from a young age and pledged to leave the of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture, South for her education. She attended Hunter College in contrasts Claiborne’s Reconstruction-era fear of both New York, frequently penniless and always working, with anarchy and tyranny with Rowland’s emphasis on prog- jobs at the Harlem YWCA, as a waitress, and as a switch- ress throughout Mississippi’s history in his 1925 study. board operator. After several years working as a teacher In the volume’s closing essay, “Literary Mississippi and and typist following graduation, Murray applied to the the New Southern Studies,” Ted Atkinson, too, points to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for graduate “multiple Souths”: a “global South,” a South that recog- school in 1932. The university denied her admission on nizes diversity in ethnicities and sexualities, a South skep- the grounds of race. Always outspoken about injustice, tical of “master narratives of history, place, and identity,” Murray and a friend were arrested in Virginia for refusing a South that “replaces the stock southern narrative of loss to move to the back of a Greyhound bus. This incident and decline with one of perpetual regional regeneration.” and her work to reverse the unjust death sentence of a Atkinson believes that such a “paradigm shift in Southern black man strengthened her resolve to go to law school. Studies” can suggest ways of “remapping” literary Her time at the largely male Howard School of Law Mississippi. Contributors to A Literary History of Mississippi formed the basis for her concept of “Jane Crow,” the are cartographers in this enterprise. intersectional experience of discrimination that drove her life’s work. Denied admission to Harvard for graduate Joan Wylie Hall school in law because of her gender, Murray worked as a journalist in the black press before attending University of California, Berkeley’s law school. While there, Murray continued the scholarship she began at Howard, arguing that Plessy v. Ferguson be challenged on the grounds of the Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray 13th and 14th Amendments. Her argument, dismissed by By Rosalind Rosenberg. New York: Oxford many at the time, became a key element in the NAACP University Press, 2017. 512 pages. $29.95 attorneys’ strategy in the 1954 Brown case. Murray, after a failed attempt at private legal prac- cloth. tice, shifted her focus to writing, working on what would become Proud Shoes, a chronicle of the lives of her I first encountered Pauli Murray in college, while writing maternal grandparents, while resident (and neighbor to a paper on her friend Lillian Smith. The women admired James Baldwin) at the MacDowell Colony. After Murray each other’s work, together challenging the racism and published the book, she began work as one of the first sexism of American society in the early and mid-20th women lawyers at a law firm with a notably diverse staff, century. For both, family history of the enslaving and followed by a year teaching at the Ghana School of Law. segregated South permeated their contemporary struggles Leaving because of the country’s increasing authoritari- for social justice. anism, Murray returned to enroll in Rosalind Rosenberg’s Jane Crow: Yale Law School, finally achieving The Life of Pauli Murray is a highly her goal of earning a doctorate in readable account of Murray’s intense legal studies. and life-long battle to confront social Beginning with correspon- issues bound up in the entangled dence in the 1940s, Murray threads of race, sexuality, gender, and became friends with Eleanor class. Rosenberg captures Murray’s Roosevelt, who appointed her to inexhaustible drive to tear down the President’s Commission on the what she experienced as unjust social Status of Women in 1961. Murray barriers that said little about the true contributed to the commission’s complexity of human life. Her narra- work on employment law by tive has an immediacy that seam- arguing that the 14th Amendment’s lessly connects Murray’s personal and equal protection applied to gender public lives. as well as race. Murray, whose Murray was born in 1910 in work on equal rights in employ- Baltimore to a nurse and teacher. ment impressed Betty Friedan, was Her mother died when she was three, a charter member of NOW. and her father, abusive and severely Rosenberg provides a particularly mentally ill, died while institutional- compelling discussion of Murray’s ized in 1923. Murray’s Aunt Pauline, “confused world of uncertain

Page 26 Fall 2017 The Southern Register boundaries.” Descended from slaves, slave owners, and Cherokee Indians, Murray faced poverty while knowing she was destined to receive an education and be successful. She also believed that she was truly male and sought hormone treatment long before the move- ment for transgender rights made transition possible. From a personal experience of “in betweenness,” Murray was well situated to attack social boundaries that she knew were not absolute. In Rosenberg’s words, she was “a bridge, between black and white, male and female, northerner and southerner, left handed and right handed, old and young—an example of diversity in one body, on its way toward mutuality and reconciliation in a better world.” After the death of Renee Barlow, her partner of sixteen years, Murray was devastated and looked to her life- long experience in the Episcopal Church for solace. This spiritual journey led Murray to discern a call to ordained priesthood, which was at the time barred to women. Following seminary, Murray broke another barrier, becoming the first African American woman, and one of the first women, to be ordained in the Episcopal Church. Murray’s ordination completed a life devoted to advo- cacy for the least among us.

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From live drama by Blanche DuBois in The Grange Cemetery, history lessons from the Civil Rights Era in historic adjoining churches to ragtime, jazz, & blues in The New World District, & scenes performed in the actual settings of the great Delta plays created by Tennessee Williams, this will be a day to remember.

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