SPRING/SUMMER 2018 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Honors Center with Two Awards

The Center for the Study of volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture will be well repre- Southern Culture. In The Potlikker sented at this year’s Mississippi Papers, he traces how the food of Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) working-class southerners became a awards banquet in Jackson. pivotal part of American cuisine. The For the second time in four years, book has been roundly praised by the Mississippi Institute of Arts major news outlets, from the New York and Letters will honor the Center Times to making NPR’s list of 2017’s for its work in publishing. At this Great Reads. The Atlanta Journal- year’s awards banquet, to be held Constitution asks, “Is The Potlikker at the Two Mississippi Museums on Papers a history of the South by Saturday, June 2, MIAL will present way of food stories, or a story about Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, southern food by way of our history? Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, and By the time you come to the end of James G. Thomas, Jr. with a Special this rigorous volume, you’ll know that Achievement Award for their work the two are indivisible.” on the Mississippi Encyclopedia, The Mississippi Institute of Arts published in May 2017 by the and Letters recently announced all University Press of Mississippi. of its award winners for works first MIAL presented the Center with published, performed, or shown in a Special Achievement Award for the year 2017. The award recipients, their work on The New Encyclopedia chosen by out-of-state jurors promi- of Southern Culture (University of nent in their respective fields, will North Carolina Press) in 2014. The be honored at the MIAL annual Mississippi Encyclopedia has also awards banquet. In addition to the won an Award of Merit from the awards banquet, Fischer Galleries Mississippi Historical Society and the in Jackson will feature the work of Heritage Award from the Mississippi winners Jack Spencer and Charlie Heritage Trust this year. Buckley on Friday evening from Also receiving an award at this 5:00 to 7:30. MIAL will also offer year’s banquet is John T. Edge, a tour of Pearl River Glass Studio director of the Center’s Southern on Saturday morning from 10:00 to Foodways Alliance. Edge is the 11:00 and readings and book sign- winner of the Nonfiction Award for ings by award winners at Lemuria his recent book, The Potlikker Papers: A Bookstore Dot Com Building at Food History of the Modern South. Edge 1:30 on Saturday afternoon. has written or edited more than a dozen books, including the Foodways continued on page 18 DIRECTOR’S COLUMN

Stopping in a parking lot on a rainy morning. . . . With parking spaces for the minister apologies to Robert Frost, I am stopped in a parking lot and people with physical on a rainy morning. It is too dangerous to drive, so I’m challenges, and a marquee waiting next to a church in northern Mississippi. I don’t mentioning multiple weekly know anyone in this church or community, but I feel sure services. This seems to be a they wouldn’t mind me stopping here. solid, successful institution that might confound any quick As I wait, I’m looking out the window, pondering how expectations about church life in the rural South. Across the things I can see from this rainy parking lot might the road, a different sign advertises a nondenominational relate to various approaches in Southern Studies. The church group I have not heard of, and I wonder if it community where I’m parked is named for a secessionist competes with this one. politician who had an important role in Reconstruction. From my window or just a few miles from here, one The church belongs to the most popular denomina- can see connections to the wider range of more recent tion for newly freed people after emancipation. From questions in Southern Studies. History and memory? my window, there is nothing but fields and trees in two A few hundred yards behind the church, several dozen directions. And I’m noticing that one car after another is small monuments honor the dead. And a Southern having trouble navigating a big puddle near the rail- Studies colleague studies slavery and current under- road tracks, a scene reminiscent of a moment in William standings of it in a community just a county or two Faulkner’s The Reivers. For the Southern Studies scholar, south of here. Literature? Another Southern Studies the potential problem is that the combination of the Civil colleague studies the fiction of an author from that War, emancipation, Reconstruction, race and religion, same community, and The Mississippi Encyclopedia tells rural life, and a scene from Faulkner start to seem like a me that at least two important poets live or grew up stereotype of Southern Studies, as though those are the close to this spot. Music? We could ask how people in only topics that define the South and how to study it. this community relate to the hill country blues with But the view out the window immediately complicates heroes not far from here. Protest? We’re pretty close assumptions that Southern Studies only cares about a to the home of antilynching activist Ida B. Wells. few predictable topics rooted in the past. Modern tech- Foodways? Aside from a cornfield or two, I see no nologies appear in every direction. I sit next to several examples of foodways, but there’s a community a few train cars at a railroad crossing, there are powerlines, a miles north where people have put out intriguing signs new bridge, and a small sign advertises cheap access to that read “Family Table.” Sports? Behind the church the Internet. One can see the hand of multiple govern- is a solitary basketball goal, a sign of the city game ments in transportation, safety (seven signs at two inter- in the rural South, and the National Bird Dog Hall of sections urge caution), electric power, and I think I see a Fame is located not far from here in Tennessee. The post office in the distance. If an older Southern Studies environment? Unlike Frost, I wouldn’t assume I know tended to concentrate on African American churches for whose woods these are. Education? The highway just a few topics—perhaps traditions of speech, music, and moves through an important area for innovations in theology—this church seems likely to complicate any easy religion and education, with colleges associated with expectations. It is brick, with a large and well-marked multiple religious groups. Architecture? I’d like to parking lot, and it has multiple church buses, special explore the houses I can’t really see from here, and a Southern Studies scholar of economics and family life wants to know more about an advertisement for “repo T SOUTHERN REGISTER mobile homes.” In contemporary Southern Studies, we A Publication of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture • The University of Mississippi listen and look for languages other than English, and signs along this highway advertise a number of iglesias STT S AT OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI, U.S.A T Published by (“churches”). And if one could get out of the car and The Center for the Study of Southern Culture The University of Mississippi start talking to people, things would get even more Telephone: 662-915-5993 • Fax: 662-915-5814 complicated. E-mail: [email protected] • southernstudies.olemiss.edu There are times we may want to hurry up (in Frost’s Spring/Summer 2018 language, “to give the harness bells a shake”) and ask too-quick questions. Who do these people vote for and REGISTER STAFF why? How has rural life changed, or how is religion changing? What’s the central theme or the most pressing Editor: James G. Thomas, Jr. problem, and how might they relate to ideas about the Editorial assistants: Rebecca Lauck Cleary and Margaret Gaffney Graphic Designer: Susan Bauer Lee South? But a responsible form of Southern Studies does

Page 2 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register 2018 Living Blues Festival Guide

® Living Blues News © Issue #253 Vol. 49, #2 Spring and summer have finally over as bandleader when Calvin WARNER WILLIAMS hit down here in Mississippi. My Owens left in 1984 and remaining & JAY SUMMEROUR orchard is in full blossom, and the in that position until King’s death daffodils are blasting yellow joy by in 2015. Bolden, who joined King the thousands, signaling the end to after leaving the Duke Ellington yet another winter—at least here in Orchestra, carries on King’s JAMES Mississippi. legacy with his own band and And with the end of winter comes as a member of the B. B. King Boogaloo the beginning of the blues festival Blues Band. BOLDEN season. This issue, #254, contains Success doesn’t always come EUGENE our 2018 Living Blues Festival Guide, to even the most talented musi- the original festival guide for the cians. Sometimes things just Hideaway $6.95 US $6.95 CAN blues industry. The first to publish don’t work out as planned. www.livingblues.com BRIDGES every year, it gives you the chance to Take the case of Louisiana-born Belton Sutherland sit back and plan for the season. LB bluesman Eugene “Hideaway” Breaking Out with Roosevelt Collier will be at several festivals this year, Bridges. Bridges has all the so stop by and say hello. talent—a good songwriter, vocalist, This issue’s cover artists are and guitar player—but he never record. However, unlike most others, perhaps the last of the classic East could seem to break through in the Sutherland happened to be filmed Coast acoustic blues duos with roots blues scene in the United States. Fed by John Bishop, Worth Long, and in the mid-twentieth century. At age up, he bought a one-way ticket to Alan Lomax. These few minutes eighty-seven, Warner Williams is one France and was quickly embraced by of film capture a bluesman whose of the oldest active bluesmen in the the European blues audience. Today, music would have otherwise been nation. His ties to the acoustic blues Bridges is an international blues lost to time, someone we clearly of the East Coast go back further ambassador who plays around the would have scoured over and than anyone else alive. globe in places like Australia, Japan, studied if he had recorded. Makes Warner Williams and Jay Singapore, Belgium, Switzerland, one stop and think about all of the Summerour (a mere sixty-seven England, France, Slovenia, and, yes, other amazing players whose music years old) have been playing even the United States. simply disappeared like fog lifting in together for more than thirty years, Have you ever wondered about the morning. and like other duos from the region, the hundreds of bluesmen who never As is often the case in the winter, most notably Sonny Terry and recorded? Much of our study of the we have lost a considerable number Brownie McGhee and John Cephas early years of the blues has focused of blues musicians and industry and Phil Wiggins, this duo goes on recordings and the artists who figures recently. In addition to the together like toast and butter. made them. But what about all the obituaries featured in this issue, the I first saw trumpet player James musicians who, for whatever reason, last several months have seen the “Boogaloo” Bolden play with B. B. never recorded? What about their passing of Floyd Miles, Rick Hall, King in 1988 and was mesmer- influence, their appeal, their piece of Preston Shannon, Terry Evans, ized with his nonstop, head-shaking the blues story? Central Mississippi Sonny Payne, Algia Mae Hinton, dancing between horn riffs. Aptly bluesman Belton Sutherland is one and Little Sammy Davis. Obituaries given the nickname Boogaloo by such case. Sutherland, an accom- on these individuals will appear in King himself, Bolden was an integral plished country blues guitarist and upcoming issues. member of the B. B. King Orchestra singer, played around the Canton for thirty-five years, including taking area for decades but never made a Brett J. Bonner

not stop with too-quick questions. cheap Internet connections have thoughtful and responsible approach All of the people in this church and multiple lives that do not fit into to Southern Studies, there’s more of this community, all of the people the categories scholars like me it—more people, more topics, more connected to these woods and have created for them. And the stories, and even more questions. fields, and all of the people who point is not just that there’s more travel through or communicate by to it. Even more importantly for a Ted Ownby

The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 3 A Look Ahead for Southern Studies Master of Arts Graduates BECCA WALTON With graduation quickly approaching, students who are attaining their master’s degrees in Southern Studies are busy mapping out their futures. Here’s a quick look at what’s in store for some of our graduates. After graduation, Jacqueline Sahagian will to move back her hometown of Nashville in hopes of landing a job in a museum or other cultural institution. She plans to begin applying to doctoral programs for the fall of 2018 so that she may continue her research on the inter- section of gender, race, and place in southern music. “I loved my time here at the Center and am obsessed with every aspect of Southern The graduating Southern Studies Master of Arts class of 2018: Left to right: Rachel Studies,” she said. Jacqui completed Childs, Victoria de Leone, George McDaniel, Rebecca Lauck Cleary, Je’Monda an MA thesis that explores the Roy, Holly Robinson, and Kevin Mitchell. Not pictured: Jacqui Sahagian problematic marketing techniques deployed by the Oxford, Mississippi- based record label Fat Possum. where he currently holds a chef of my development as a filmmaker Holly Robinson has made plans instructor position. “My time here and a scholar,” she said. “Through to return to her home country of has been fantastic,” he said. “It has the documentary track, and with England, where she hopes to even- been a wonderful journey that was the help of Ava Lowrey and Andy tually make her way to London surrounded by colleagues who are Harper in particular, I’ve been able and start her ideal job working at doing great work in the field of to explore my interests, creativity, the American embassy. “I would Southern Studies, and it was an honor and critical thinking simultaneously, just like to thank the Center for the to be among them and learn from in a way that I don’t believe any Study of Southern Culture and the them.” While working on his MA, other program allows.” Tori created British Association of American Kevin has continued to teach online Small Batch, a documentary thesis Studies for allowing me to study at classes at CIC. As a chef, Kevin’s film centered on the role of women Ole Miss, and to everyone here for thesis focused on foodways, discussing in the craft beer and whiskey indus- their support,” she said. “I will miss both enslaved and freed cooks from tries. The short film focuses on a them all greatly.” While she remains Charleston in the 1800s. His thesis also female brewer and a female distiller open to job opportunities, Holly has investigates how the foods that West at two southern craft companies, and started looking at jobs in the public African slaves brought with them and seeks to balance their experiences relations and marketing fields so that grew here have become part of the as women in the industry with their she may utilize what she learned southern cuisine. passion for their careers. while writing her thesis. Holly’s MA After graduation, Victoria de Rachel Childs is moving to New thesis focused on Aunt Jemima and Leone plans to attend Wake Forest Mexico, where she has accepted a argues that the various owners of to earn an MFA in Documentary job working as a content specialist Aunt Jemima have commodified Arts. The three-year-long program for PR Newswire. Meanwhile, she the African American body for their offers coursework in arts busi- will continue looking for editorial own commercial gain. ness, pedagogy, and distribution. and producer jobs in public media, Immediately following gradua- Tori believes that the program will public history, oral history, and at tion, Kevin Mitchell plans to return allow her to delve deeper into her university presses for her long-term to Charleston, South Carolina, and interest in film and turn it into a career path. While working on her assume his teaching position at the career one day. “The Center has MA, Rachel completed a thesis Culinary Institute of Charleston, been so outrageously supportive on the Mississippi State Lunatic

Page 4 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register Center Holds Awards Ceremony at Graduation Luncheon

Each year the Center gives several Honors College thesis in history. Aschoff Award, also for outstanding awards for papers and documen- The Coterie Award, which also work in the study of southern music, tary projects following the gradu- honors outstanding scholarship in went to Katherine Howell for her ation ceremony on campus. Ted an undergraduate paper, went to paper, “The False Purification of Ownby announced the recipients Liam Nieman for his paper, “Image a Hybrid Tradition: A Rhetorical at the Southern Studies graduation Is One Thing: Elvis as an Image of Examination of the Racialized luncheon in Barnard Observatory. Mississippi.” Connotations of Cultural Separation Graduation was on Saturday, May The Ann Abadie Award for the in Blues Authenticity Discourses.” 12, this year. best documentary project went The Sue Hart Award for Here are the winners for 2018: to Rachel Childs for her MA outstanding work in gender studies The Gray Award, which honors radio documentary, “A Body a went to Victoria de Leone for outstanding scholarship in an under- Day: Constructing Deviance at the her thesis film,Small Batch, and to graduate paper, went to Caitlin Mississippi State Asylum.” Hooper Schultz, for his paper, Kennedy for her paper, “Vengeance, The Sarah Dixon Pegues Award “Family Matters: Amendment 1 and Violence, and Vigilantism: An in the study of southern music went the Fight over Marriage in North Exploration of the 1891 Lynching to Keerthi Chandrashakar for Carolina.” of Eleven Italian-Americans in New his paper, “Seeing the Blues: Pride The Lucille and Motee Daniels Orleans.” The work was Kennedy’s and Safety in Dress,” and the Peter Award, awarded for the best project by a first-year graduate student in Southern Studies, went to Frankie Barrett, “S-Town: Construction of Place in a Serial Narrative Podcast.” And the award for the Best Thesis had two winners this year. One award went to Jacqui Sahagian for “That Same Old Blues Crap: Selling the Blues at Fat Possum Records,” and the other went to Holly Robinson for “Marketing the Myth: The Racial Commodification and Reclaiming of Aunt Jemima.”

Left to right, first row: Jacqui Sahagian, Rebecca Lauck Cleary, Victoria de Leone, Bear Braswell; second row, Rachel Childs, Je’Monda Roy, Katherine Aberle; third row, Holly Robinson, Kevin Mitchell, and Tyler Necaise. Not pictured: Nick Thompson JAMES G. THOMAS, JR.

Asylum, exploring how it served evidence of seven thousand bodies can’t be overstated,” she said. “I as a case study for southern psychi- recently discovered buried on the learned so much in a short amount atry, constructions of deviance, and University of Mississippi Medical of time and met the coolest people Mississippi’s upholding of Jim Crow Center campus (the site of the old doing the most worthwhile, neces- culture through eugenics. In addi- asylum) and the Medical Center’s sary things with vigor, care, and tion to her written thesis, Rachel also plans to exhume them. “The support passion.” produced a radio documentary that I received here from advisors, situated these questions around the professors, friends, and colleagues Grace Nelson

The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 5 Mississippi Encyclopedia 2.0 State Reference Work to Debut Online Version

As of this summer, if you don’t want to lug around the nine-pound Mississippi Encyclopedia, just grab your laptop and the wonders of the state are at your fingertips. Soon there will be an online version of the 1,451-page Mississippi Encyclopedia, a project that began at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture in 2003 and concluded with publication in 2017. The Mississippi Encyclopedia includes solid, clear information contained in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else, with entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. It is the first encyclopedic treatment of the state since 1907. The volume, published by the University Press of Mississippi, appeals to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi. It has proven to be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discov- ering the state, past and present. Stuart Rockoff, executive director of the Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC), is familiar with the encyclo- pedia project because he wrote the “Jews” and “Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life” entries. He said he is pleased that the MHC has been able to help make an online version a reality. Council’s resources to help make it history and culture, the online ency- “I was excited to learn that the happen. The online encyclopedia clopedia will offer them a wealth of book would finally be published, would not be possible without the information and analysis,” he said. but was especially interested in commitment of the Center and its “For middle school and high school creating an online version that staff, not to mention their incredible students taking Mississippi History, would be accessible to students work compiling and editing all of the the online encyclopedia will be an across the state and people all over entries that went into the book.” incredible and accessible resource.” the world,” Rockoff said. “I later Rockoff added that the online Ted Ownby, director of the learned that during the early stages version enables the encyclopedia Center for the Study of Southern of the encyclopedia project there to be a living document, with new Culture, used the print version of the were discussions about creating an entries being added and old ones Encyclopedia in teaching a HST 452: online version. I wanted to bring that being updated. “For people outside History of Mississippi course at the idea back and offer the Humanities of our state but interested in our rich University of Mississippi and echoed

Page 6 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register the importance of an online version Senator Thad Cochran retired, and School of Law joined the widening availability for learners. people published new books and Southern Studies program in encour- “Using the Encyclopedia as a refer- received recognition, and several aging advanced students to write ence in teaching Mississippi history subjects of the entries have died.” for the project. Early support came this spring enabled me to make the The importance of The Mississippi from the University of Mississippi course much more distinctive, more Encyclopedia has not gone unno- and the National Endowment for the about the specific individuals—people ticed, as the book won a Mississippi Humanities. and places—rather than generalities, Institute of Arts and Letters Award, Each entry in The Mississippi so the online version will be more and awards of merit from the Encyclopedia provides an authoritative useful for schools and students doing Mississippi Historical Society and but accessible introduction to the projects,” Ownby said. “We love the Mississippi Heritage Trust. topic discussed. It also features long the fact that a hardcopy encourages The Mississippi Encyclopedia is the essays on agriculture, archaeology, browsing and surprise, and we hope successful result of numerous collab- the civil rights movement, the Civil the online version holds the same orations—between the University War, contemporary issues, drama, possibilities for searching for one Press of Mississippi and the Center education, the environment, ethnicity, thing and finding a dozen things that for the Southern Culture, among fiction, folklife, foodways, gender, are equally interesting.” the numerous supporters who geography, industry and industrial Ownby said the online version contributed to or helped organize workers, law, science and medicine, allows for updates of the print the project, among the thirty topic music, myths and representations, version, as well as a chance to make editors from around the state and far Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, any corrections. “It will have more beyond it, and among the authors, politics and government, the press, illustrations because there are no an intriguing mixture of scholars. religion, social and economic history, limits on page count and the online The Mississippi Humanities Council sports, and visual art. version will have a few original and the Mississippi Department documentary films,” he said. “Since of Archives and History helped a Rebecca Lauck Cleary the print version came out a year ago great deal, and the University of a number of things have changed. Mississippi Department of History

The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 7 ALUMNI PROFILES Steve Cheseborough Continues to Update Blues Guidebook

In 1997 the University Press of Steve Cheseborough Mississippi (UPM) came up with the playing at the dedication idea for a guidebook to Mississippi of Bo Carter’s headstone, blues sites. At that time, the only July 2017, in Nitta Yuma, Mississippi guide was Jim O’Neal’s Delta Blues Map Kit, which was forty hand- stapled pages without detailed direc- tions or much background.​ UPM contacted David Evans, a longtime blues scholar who was head of ethnomusicology at Memphis State University. He suggested Steve Cheseborough, a first-semester Southern Studies student who trav- eled to Memphis once a week for Evans’s graduate blues seminar. “Evans knew I was already doing basically what working on the book BILL STEBER BILL would entail: traveling to blues- related sites and blues festivals, Cheseborough takes readers to the talking to blues musicians, reading intersection where Robert Johnson and thinking about blues history and sold his soul to the Devil, of course, geography,” Cheseborough said. but also uncovers fresh destinations “He also knew about my journalism with updated material on new festi- background—I had left a longtime vals, state blues markers, club open- job as a newspaper reporter to enter ings and closings, and many other the Southern Studies program. I transformations in the Delta’s blues though I live think the press considered a few scene. There are photographs, maps, in exile in Portland, Oregon, now, I other authors, but after a few months and easy-to-follow directions, while manage to get back down there regu- I had a contract with them to write readers go in and out of Clarksdale, larly. Since the book-update trip I’ve the book. It has been a big hit for Greenwood, Rolling Fork, Jackson, been to Mississippi twice: I spoke and them—I mean, it’s not on the New Natchez, Bentonia, Rosedale, Itta performed at the dedication of Bo York Times bestseller list or anything, Bena, and dozens of other locales Carter’s grave marker in Nitta Yuma but for a university press it has been where generations of blues musicians last year, and in March I performed a big success, sold steadily and well.” have lived, traveled, and performed. at the Templeton Ragtime Festival at If there had been a book such Although Cheseborough lives in Mississippi State.” as Blues Traveling available for Oregon now, he always returns to Although Blues Traveling is not Cheseborough when he arrived in the South for research. For the fourth actually based on the research he did Mississippi, he certainly would have edition, Bookfriends of the University for his master’s thesis, it is related. purchased it, but instead, it turns out Press of Mississippi provided a grant He wrote his thesis about the life he was the perfect person to be the sponsoring his trip, which he says was and music of Bo Carter, a 1930s author. wonderful. “I spent about a month Mississippi blues artist. His interests This fall, UPM will publish the traveling around gathering and in blues and Mississippi travel all led fourth edition of Blues Traveling, updating information and shooting him to enter the Southern Studies now known as an indisputably photos,” Cheseborough said. “There’s program—and then to a book deal. essential guidebook to Mississippi’s really not much I like better than musical places and its blues history. traveling around Mississippi. Even Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Page 8 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register Ellen Meacham Publishes Book Examining RFK’s Delta Visit University of Mississippi journalism professor and Southern Studies MA Ellen Meacham grad Ellen Meacham details Robert F. Kennedy’s visit to the Mississippi Delta in 1967 in her new book Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi. Meacham’s book, published by University Press of Mississippi, examines the history, economics, and politics of the Delta and how those factors influenced the lives of people Kennedy met there during that visit. The book was inspired by an often- told story of Kennedy traveling to “one of the worst places I’ve ever seen” and finding a toddler starving in “a dark windowless shack.” “I wondered about the impact it had on Kennedy,” Meacham said, “because The book also features about Meacham said that the program it’s mentioned as an important a dozen never-published photos, provided her with a larger picture of moment in all of his biographies. including the image on the cover. the politics in Mississippi in terms The next question I had was, ‘What “The photographs were essential to of race and other issues. “Southern happened to the baby?’” telling this story,” Meacham said. Studies exposed me to so many After seven years of searching, “They brought such a vivid realism disciplines that look at political theo- Meacham found and interviewed chil- that showed the impact of the visit on ries, economics, sociology, history, dren from the four families Kennedy Kennedy in a powerful way.” and culture,” she said. “What I encountered on his visit, including A working journalist for more than learned as a master’s student helped that toddler. “As I got into the two decades, Meacham used her me weave together in Delta Epiphany research, I realized pretty quickly that experience as a newspaper reporter what I hope is a powerful narrative there was a big part of the story that in Mississippi, which gave her access that explores the forces at work in had not been told,” she said. “Most to contacts within both politics and the Mississippi Delta. of the contemporary news accounts journalism in the state, putting her in “Looking back,” she said, “one of and later historians had only looked a unique position to tell these stories. the practical things I did as an MA at RFK on the stage. The people who She claims her work in the Southern student in Southern Studies was read were living the lives that moved him Studies program was also a big influ- Jim Cobb’s The Most Southern Place so were more of a ‘poverty stage set.’” ence on how she approached her on Earth, which gave me a deeper, Meacham wanted to tell the work for the book. multifaceted understanding of that stories of those people. “It became She began her master’s work in place. The program also introduced very important to me to bring those the mid-1990s and finished in 2003. me to great scholar role models and families into the light and find out Although she was already doing mentors like Charles Reagan Wilson, how they came to be in that place at journalism while in the program, Ted Ownby, and John T. Edge, who that time, what struggles they faced Southern Studies “deepened my were helpful and offered key insights and their accomplishments since,” understanding of government policy and encouragement through the she said. “I think it brings more and the choices people make,” she whole process.” balance. It’s not just a story of a hero said. Her thesis focused on the influ- or a saint. It’s about a real person ence of southern culture on domestic Christina Steube meeting real people.” violence policy in South Carolina.

The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 9 FACULTY PROFILE A Deal with the Devil Adam Gussow Subject of New Documentary, Wins Cawelti Award

Adam Gussow wears many hats, Harlem. After twenty-three years obviously about New York and the including scholar, author, and of closely following the lives of racial strife of the 1980s and ’90s. musician. Now Gussow, associate Gussow and Sterling “Mr. Satan” And in the end, I think it’s testifying professor of English and Southern Magee, filmmaker V. Scott Balcerek to what Dr. King called ‘beloved Studies, is also the subject of a has finally finished the story of the community’: the ‘true interrelated- documentary and among the stars acclaimed blues duo. ness’ of the human family.” of this year’s seventeenth annual “It’s remark- Gussow began his musical career Tribeca Film Festival. On April able,” Gussow said. when he picked 20, Satan & Adam, a documentary “I think it’s a film up the harmonica about Gussow’s longtime blues duo, about a lot of things. at age sixteen, and premiered in New York City. First, I think it he continued to Satan & Adam is the story of two shows the poten- play through his emerging musicians who not only tial of someone adolescence and into found each other, but also their who looks old and his college years. passion for blues, on the streets of broken down. It’s As a young white harmonica player, a Princeton graduate, Adam Gussow and a Columbia graduate school dropout, Gussow was driving through the streets of Harlem in 1986 when he found “Satan,” an African American guitarist and local legend. The two men bonded over their love of music and immediately found their rhythm as a blues duo. They began as street musicians in Harlem in 1986 before taking their talents further as a touring act, playing at clubs across New York, until they were finally “discovered” in 1991. They issued their first album, Harlem Blues, which was nominated for a W. C. Handy Award for tradi- tional blues album, in 1991. Promising young filmmaker V. Scott Balcerek found the duo in the fall of 1995 and instantly had the idea to make them the subject of his newest project. Balcerek’s other proj- ects include the short documentary

Page 10 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register BRETT LUPFER Adam Gussow and Mr. Satan and innovative project that demonstrated how the Devil has func- tioned as a malleable metaphor within the history of the blues,” said Kraig Larkin, associate professor of history at Colby-Sawyer College. “The committee valued Adam’s ability to illus- trate how the Devil appears and reappears at specific moments in American history, often to enable musicians an opportunity to deliver a disguised critique of racial power.” In Beyond the Crossroads, Gussow takes the full measure of the Devil’s presence. Working from original Street Songs, which received a Student Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and transcriptions of more Academy Award, and the acclaimed the Blues Tradition, published last than 125 recordings released during LeBron James documentary More fall by University of North Carolina the past 90 years, Gussow explores Than a Game. Press. The book recently received the varied uses to which black Satan & Adam was initially going the John G. Cawelti Award for the southern blues artists have put this to be filmed over the span of a few Best Textbook/Primer from the trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but years, following the duo as they trail- Popular Culture Association (PCA). also empowering, figure. blazed their way through the New Gussow is pleased that his efforts The book culminates with a bold York music scene. are receiving recognition. “It’s a nice reinterpretation of Robert Johnson’s Although Balcerek started filming honor, and it’s wonderful vindication music and a provocative investiga- the musicians in the ’90s, he begins for the nine years I spent researching tion of the way in which the citizens the documentary with original and writing the book,” he said. of Clarksdale managed to rebrand a footage of the two men from the The mission of the Popular Culture commercial hub as “the crossroads” mid-’80s, in a moment when New Association is to promote the study in 1999, claiming Johnson and the York was rippling with racial tension of popular culture throughout the Devil as their own. and musical expression. More than world through the establishment Gussow’s first academic mono- two decades later, Balcerek’s efforts and promotion of conferences, graph, Seems Like Murder Here: are complete. publications, and discussion. Aiding Southern Violence and the Blues “We’re all incredibly excited to be the PCA in this goal is the PCA Tradition, was an honorable-mention going up to New York,” Gussow said. Endowment, which offers support for the Cawelti in 2003, and his “We’ll be there for the screenings at for scholars and scholarship. second academic book, Journeyman’s the Tribeca Film Festival on April The Cawelti award is given for Road: Modern Blues Lives from 20 and 21—they’re all sold out, too. noteworthy textbooks, primers, Faulkner’s Mississippi to Post-9/11 New We’re really hoping for the best-case and scholarly books on popular York, was an honorable mention for scenario with it.” and American culture. “The the PCA/ACA Ray and Pat Browne In addition to being the subject award committee selected Adam Award. He is also the author of Mister of a new documentary, Adam Gussow’s Beyond the Crossroads as Satan’s Apprentice: A Blues Memoir. Gussow explores the story of the this year’s John G. Cawelti Award Devil himself and the blues though recipient because it was a thor- Grace Nelson and more than just clichés in his book oughly researched, well-written, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 11 Catarina Passidomo Receives Fulbright Award to Study Foodways in Peru

University of Mississippi professor Catarina Passidomo talks by various speakers, connecting Catarina Passidomo is looking them to each other, raising academic forward to traveling to Lima, Peru, to questions to an audience that mixes teach and conduct research in 2019 many people, only a few of whom as the recipient of a Fulbright US are professional scholars. Scholar award. While in Lima, the Passidomo serves on the SFA’s UM assistant professor of anthro- academic committee, which is pology and Southern Studies will committed to setting high academic teach two courses in the Department standards for the organization’s of Social Sciences at the Pontifical projects, and she is a mentor to Catholic University of Peru. She University of Mississippi students also plans to engage in indepen- outside the classroom, serving as dent and collaborative research on a faculty adviser for the Real Food Peruvian cuisine and foodways for Rebels, a student organization advo- a project titled “Gastrodiplomacy cating to increase access to real food in Peru: Cuisine as Nation-Brand in on campus. Postcolonial Context.” The Fulbright program, which “As a scholar of southern food- aims to increase mutual exchange ways, I have taught and directed between the people of the United research that uses food as a lens States and of other countries, is the to explore social and cultural flagship international educational phenomena: who has power in Passidomo, who also works closely exchange program sponsored by the a society and who lacks it; how with the Southern Foodways Alliance, US government. people interpret or remember the said she is ecstatic about the opportu- Fulbright alumni have become past; how race, class, and gender nity. “This allows me to do what I’ve heads of state, judges, ambassadors, identities influence what and how been wanting to pursue for a long cabinet ministers, CEOs, and univer- people produce, consume, and think while,” she said, “and it’s a synergistic sity presidents, as well as leading jour- about food,” Passidomo wrote in opportunity to combine food and nalists, artists, scientists, and teachers. her Fulbright application. The grant identity in the two regions.” They include fifty-nine Nobel period is four months, beginning in Once a year, Passidomo teaches laureates, eighty-two Pulitzer Prize March 2019. Southern Studies 555: Foodways winners, seventy-one MacArthur “I first became aware of Peru’s and Southern Culture, an innovative fellows, and sixteen Presidential culinary renaissance—what is often class available to graduate students Medal of Freedom recipients. referred to as its ‘gastronomic boom’— and advanced undergraduates. “She The Fulbright offers fellowships the explosion of global interest in is also a successful teacher outside for teaching, research, and teaching/ Peruvian food and the tremendous the classroom,” said Ted Ownby, research. Passidomo’s award is national pride that accompanies it— director of the Center for the Study teaching/research, part of the during a CIEE Faculty Development of Southern Culture. “People come Educational Exchange Program Seminar on Peruvian Foodways in to foodways scholarship from lots of between Peru and the United States. Lima during the summer of 2015,” directions, and Catarina has done A native of Naples, Florida, Passidomo said. an excellent job both listening and Passidomo received her doctorate “Funding for that seminar was teaching,” Ownby said. in human geography from the provided by the Provost’s Faculty Passidomo leads the Southern University of Georgia in 2013. Development Award for Campus Foodways Alliance fall graduate She also holds a master’s degree Internationalization, which allowed seminar in foodways by both in ecological anthropology from several UM faculty members to critiquing and encouraging papers the University of Georgia and a participate in CIEE programs all and presentations in the quickly bachelor’s degree in sociology and around the world. Thanks to a changing academic field of food- anthropology from Washington and College of Liberal Arts Summer ways scholarship. At one Southern Lee University. Research Grant, I was able to return Foodways Symposium, she served to Peru in 2016.” as scholar-in-residence, introducing Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Page 12 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register Ted Ownby Named William F. Winter Professor of History As director of the Center for the in racial reconciliation work, in University of North Carolina Press. Study of Southern Culture, Ted Mississippi history, and he believes He is the editor or coeditor of eight Ownby fulfills many roles. Now he in continuing to work for progress of other books, including The Mississippi can add one more to the list: William multiple kinds. Winter is Mississippi Encyclopedia, published last year by F. Winter Professor of History. history’s most accomplished the University Press of Mississippi. Ownby, professor of history and governor, and he is a great example According to Jeffrey Watt, acting Southern Studies, recently received for all of us. It’s exciting as a scholar chair of history, Ownby has been a news of his appointment. In 1992 the and teacher and encyclopedia editor pillar of the graduate programs in University of Mississippi Foundation to be connected to him.” both history and Southern Studies established this endowed William F. A committee comprised of full during the past three decades. He has Winter Chair of History in order to professors of history selected Ownby directed to completion twenty-eight promote and recognize excellence in to be the third holder of this pres- history doctoral dissertations and historical scholarship and to honor tigious professorship, the previous approximately fifty master’s theses in William F. Winter, a former governor two being professors Winthrop history and Southern Studies. (1980–84) and staunch supporter Jordan and Charles Eagles. A faculty “Although the Winter Chair is of public education in Mississippi. member at UM since 1988 and not specifically designated for a Winter was a 1943 University of director of the Center for the Study of specialist in southern history,” Watt Mississippi graduate who majored Southern Culture since 2008, Ownby said, “Ownby definitely writes the in history. He earned his law degree is widely regarded as a leading type of history that fans of William from UM in 1949. scholar in the area of southern history Winter are bound to enjoy. Simply “Being named an endowed and is the author of three books, put, Ted Ownby is an invaluable chair is an honor, and having an Subduing Satan (1990), American asset to the Arch Dalrymple III endowed chair named for William Dreams in Mississippi (1999), and Department of History and is most Winter is particularly meaningful,” Hurtin’ Words: Ideas of Family Crisis worthy of this honor.” Ownby said. “Governor Winter and the Twentieth-Century South, which has been a leader in education, will be published this fall by the Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Jodi Skipper Meets with National Trust for Historic Preservation

UM associate professor of anthro- and answer questions at Burton St. Louis, Missouri, area, said she is pology and Southern Studies Jodi Place about the preservation of these working to document and identify Skipper helped welcome visitors underrepresented sites. Included in the people who lived and worked on from the National Trust for Historic that list were Jobie Hill, an archi- the property of Mary Burton. Preservation to Holly Springs on tect who works to preserve dwell- “‘Telling the Full History’ is Friday, April 18. The group spent ings once occupied by slaves and our theme in establishing a fund four days in Mississippi touring their descendants in the US; Debra to preserve buildings associated historic sites, several related to Davis, a descendant of Tom Burton, with enslaved persons,” Meeks African American heritage. an early slave living at Burton Place; told the local tour organizers. “We The Holly Springs tour began at and Stephanie Meeks, president and at the National Trust for Historic the Wakefield mansion, moved on to CEO of the National Trust. Preservation are so pleased to see the Randy Hayes Art Gallery, then Skipper said seven slaves lived in that Holly Springs recognizes the stopped at Burton Place to observe the Burton Place slave kitchen and importance of these buildings. We the historic slave quarters. David quarters, three of whom were chil- look forward to working with you in Person welcomed the tour group to dren. Those living in the three-room this important work.” Burton Place, his home since 2005, slave quarters were possibly cham- and to Holly Springs. bermaids, cooks, and valets, she said. Sue Watson In addition to Jodi Skipper, who Mary Burton owned about eighty interprets slavery through dwell- slaves, about sixty-seven of whom A version of this article was originally ings lived in by slaves, special guests have been identified by genealogist published n the Holly Springs South were invited to make presentations Debra Davis. Davis, who lives in the Reporter. Used with permission.

The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 13 Center on the Road The Southern Studies faculty and staff stay busy—both on and off the University of Mississippi campus. This past winter and spring, a number of faculty members were invited to give papers and lectures at meetings, conferences, and in class- rooms across the country. In February, Katie McKee presented “‘Watch[ing] ghosts go by’: Looking out the Nineteenth-Century Windows of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Sherwood Bonner” at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature meeting in Austin, Texas. In March, she represented the UM College of Liberal Arts at Humanities Advocacy Left to right: Laura Pulido, Craig Colten, Michael Crutcher, Rebecca Sheehan, Day in Washington, DC. AAG President Derek Alderman, and Catarina Passidomo at the annual meet- On February 16, John Rash’s ing of the American Association of Geographers in New Orleans filmYangtze Drift was screened as part of the Embrace Our Rivers: DAMnedART exhibition at Goethe- across the state as part of the Best and at the University of Mississippi. Institut Max Mueller Bhavan in of the Oxford Film Fest. The film Each student conducted original Chennai, India. On March 2, Rash also aired on Mississippi Public research and recorded a first-person presented Yangtze Drift as part of the Broadcasting. account with a narrator, with the Society of Photographic Education’s On March 15, Jessie Wilkerson “conscious intent of creating a perma- National Conference and Media presented the Woman’s History nent record to contribute to an under- Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Month lecture, “Who Gets to standing of the past.” The event was On February 22, Brian Foster Speak for Appalachia? Women, held at the Burns-Belfry Museum & presented his work “That’s for Gender, and Historical Memory,” at Multicultural Center in Oxford. the White Folks: Black Racial Louisiana Tech University. On April 29, Ted Ownby Attitudes and Place Unmaking in the On April 10, Catarina presented “Mississippians and Their Rural South” at the Du Bois-King Passidomo participated in the Autobiographies” at the opening of Symposium on Race in Atlanta, presidential plenary session at the the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Georgia. On April 6 and 7, he partic- annual meeting of the American Experience in Meridian. ipated in the annual meeting of the Association of Geographers in New On May 1, John T. Edge discussed Southern Sociological Society in New Orleans. The session featured five his book The Potlikker Papers and Orleans. There he presented “That’s scholars speaking to various themes the participated in a panel discus- for the White Folks: Black Racial of struggle within New Orleans. sion with restaurateur Sean Brock of Attitudes and Place Unmaking in Passidomo spoke about New Husk; restaurateur Maneet Chauhan the Rural South,” was a critic during Orleans’s racial and edible geogra- of Chauhan Ale & Masala House, the Author-Meets-Critics session phies in historic and contemporary Tansuo, and The Mockingbird; and for Jean Beaman’s Citizen Outsider: contexts. Caroline Randall Williams, author Children of North African Immigrants On April 25, students in Jessie of Soul Food Love. Edge’s book was in France, and participated in the Wilkerson’s Southern Studies 506: the selection for this year’s Nashville “Southern Sociology in the Era of Graduate Seminar in Southern Reads. Nashville Reads is “a way of Trump?” panel discussion. On April LGBTQ History and Oral History bringing the entire city together to 24, Foster was a discussant during Methods class gave an oral history read great literature in an attempt to the “Chocolate Cities Symposium” performance, which was the culmi- broaden the literary horizons of the in Memphis, Tennessee. nation of reading, writing, listening, city and open up a forum for discus- In March, Rex Jones screened re-listening, telling, and re-telling sion.” The event took place at the Flag Flap over Mississippi in cities queer history and memory in Oxford Nashville Public Library.

Page 14 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register Still Hungry in America CONTRIBUTORS SFA and UGA Press Reissue Brett J. Bonner is the editor of Living Blues magazine.

Book on Hunger in the US South Rebecca Lauck Cleary is the The Southern Foodways Center’s senior staff assistant Alliance, in partnership with and website administrator. the University of Georgia She received a BA in jour- Press, has republished Still nalism from the University Hungry in America as part of of Mississippi and recently the SFA Studies in Culture, completed work on her MA in People, and Place book Southern Studies. series. The book is a collec- tion of photographs by Al Victoria de Leone gradu- Clayton, complemented ated from the Southern Studies by text written by Harvard MA program this spring. She professor Robert Coles, is headed to Wake Forest and an introduction penned in Winston-Salem, North by Sen. Ted Kennedy. Carolina, to begin work on an In this reissue, Thomas MFA in Documentary Studies. J. Ward, chairman of the history department at Spring Joan Wylie Hall is a lecturer Hill College, offers a new in the Department of English at foreword. the University of Mississippi. Originally published in 1969, the documen- Grace Nelson, a recent tary evidence of poverty and malnutrition in the American South show- Honors College student at the cased in Still Hungry in America still resonates today. The work was created University of Mississippi, gradu- to complement a July 1967 US Senate Subcommittee on Employment, ated this past spring. During Manpower, and Poverty hearings on hunger in America. At those hearings, the 2017–18 school year, Grace witnesses documented examples of deprivation afflicting hundreds of thou- assisted with a number of sands of American families. The most powerful testimonies came from the projects, including the Oxford authors of this profoundly disturbing and important book. Conference for the Book. Al Clayton’s sensitive camerawork enabled the subcommittee members to see the agonizing results of insufficient food and improper diet, rendered graphi- Liam Nieman is a junior cally in stunted, weakened, and fractured bones, dry, shrunken, and ulcerated Southern Studies and English skin, wasting muscles, and bloated legs and abdomens. Physician and child major. He is lifestyles editor of psychiatrist Robert Coles, who had worked with these populations for many the Daily Mississippian. years, described with fierce clarity the medical and psychological effects of hunger. Coles’s powerful narrative, reinforced by heartbreaking interviews with Ted Ownby, director of the impoverished people and accompanied by 101 photographs taken by Clayton Center, holds a joint appoint- in Appalachia, rural Mississippi, and Atlanta, Georgia, convey the plight of the ment in Southern Studies and millions of hungry citizens in the most affluent nation on earth. history. The new foreword by historian Thomas J. Ward Jr. analyzes food insecu- rity among today’s rural and urban poor and frames the current crisis in the Christina Steube is a commu- American diet not as a scarcity of food but as an overabundance of empty nications specialist at the calories leading to obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. University of Mississippi.

Mary Thompson is a board member of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 15 eE CALL FOR PAPERS Study the South A Center for the Study of Southern Culture Publication

Study the South, a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open-access journal published by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, announces a general call for papers. Study the South exists to encourage interdisciplinary academic thought and discourse Study the South Publishes Work on the culture of the American South. Editors welcome submis- on “Blues Expressiveness and sions by faculty members, advanced graduate students, the Blues Ethos” and professional scholars doing work in the fields of history, The blues—as a palette of intense, often contradictory feelings; a range of social anthropology, sociology, music, conditions heavily inflected by blackness and southernness; an expressive literature, documentary studies, form encompassing literature as well as music; and a philosophical orienta- gender studies, religion, geog- tion towards experience—are a more complex cultural phenomenon than some raphy, media studies, race realize. In Adam Gussow’s new essay, “Blues Expressiveness and the Blues studies, ethnicity, folklife, and Ethos,” published in Study the South on January 24, he unpacks the title’s two art to submit article abstracts concepts: blues expressiveness and the blues ethos. Blues expressiveness is or complete manuscripts. Final constituted by a range of cultural practices, including the AAB stanza, call manuscripts and projects must and response procedure, vocalizations, blues-idiomatic language, and signi- attempt to build upon and fying. The blues ethos, too, offers multiple strategies for surviving bad times expand the understanding of the by refusing to reify the down-ness of the present moment as an inescapable American South in order to be condition, sometimes with the help of harsh, redemptive laughter. considered for publication. In this essay, Gussow draws on a range of lyric, literary, and folkloristic To submit an original paper for commentary by Langston Hughes, Cornell West, Bessie Smith, Howard consideration, please e-mail James Odum, Kalamu ya Salaam, W. C. Handy, Angela Y. Davis, Lonnie Johnson, G. Thomas, Jr. at jgthomas@ and many others. The essay also takes an autobiographical turn as Gussow olemiss.edu. Submissions must be mines his own bandstand and classroom experience with Mississippi-born previously unpublished. blues performers Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee and Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry For questions or additional to illustrate the blues ethos in action. information, please contact: Gussow is an associate professor of English and Southern Studies at James G. Thomas, Jr., Center for the University of Mississippi. His teaching and research interests include the Study of Southern Culture, American and African American literature; blues, country, and other southern [email protected], (662) musics; the pastoral South; Freedom Summer; and the shaping role of race on 915-3374. Study the South is avail- southern culture. He has published five books, includingSouthern Violence and able via the Center’s website at the Blues Tradition and, most recently, Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the www.studythesouth.org. Blues Tradition. Study the South publishes a variety of works by institutionally affiliated and independent scholars. Like the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Study the South embraces a diversity of media, including written essays with accom- panying audio, video, and photography components; documentary photog- raphy; and video projects. Study the South is available via the Center’s website at www.studythesouth.org.

Page 16 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register Study the South Announces Recipient of Research Fellowship COURTESY BOBBY J. SMITH II J. SMITH BOBBY COURTESY The Center for the Study of to illuminate how food was Southern Culture is pleased used as a weapon against to announce that Bobby J. the movement and to create Smith II is the first recip- a more complete picture of ient of the Study the South the civil rights era that could Research Fellowship. The inform contemporary strug- award provides the oppor- gles with Mississippi politics tunity for funded research that impact issues of food in the collections of the access, poverty, and hunger Department of Archives throughout the state and and Special Collections beyond.” at the J. D. Williams Smith recently defended Library at the University of his dissertation in the Mississippi. Department of Development “We received dozens Sociology at Cornell of research applications, University and has accepted from published scholars the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral to masters students from Research Associate posi- abroad,” said James G. tion in the Department of Thomas, Jr., editor of Study Bobby J. Smith II African American Studies the South. “The committee at the University of Illinois was very impressed with the quality of proposals, and we at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation repositions food look forward to hosting Smith here on campus. We’ll pay narratives in civil rights historiography to extend what we close attention to the publication paths of many of the know about the American civil rights era and to inform applicants’ work, and we hope to engage with those who contemporary struggles around food justice and food are able to visit the archives here.” sovereignty in the United States. Specifically, his work Smith’s research agenda is located at the intersection focuses on how food was a weapon of opposition and a of sociology, African American studies, food studies, tool of resistance in the Mississippi Delta during this era. agriculture, and history. “The Study the South fellow- It also focuses on amplifying the voices of contemporary ship will enable me to conduct primary research that activists in rural areas and their connections to food narra- will allow me to examine the relationship between food, tives in the civil rights movement. He graduated summa power, and opposition to the civil rights movement in cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in agricul- Mississippi,” Smith said. “This project is an extension of ture, with a focus on agricultural economics from Prairie my dissertation work and departs from the traditional line View A&M University, and he earned a Master of Science of civil rights inquiry that usually focuses almost exclu- degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University. sively on proponents of the movement. By shifting our prefigured gaze from proponent to opponents, I hope James G. Thomas, Jr.

Save the Date! The Twenty-Sixth Oxford Conference for the Book March 27–29, 2019

The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 17 UM and Center Well Represented at Natchez Literary Celebration The University of Mississippi was well represented at the twenty-ninth annual Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration this past February. Besides the four William Winter Scholars from UM who were recognized, two history professors, including Center director emeritus, Charles Reagan Wilson, were honored, and two additional professors gave presenta- tions at the event, which was held February 22–24 at the Natchez Convention Center. As part of this annual event, students and faculty of the liberal arts departments from schools around Mississippi were recognized as William Winter scholars in honor of former Gov. William Winter. Each winner was recognized during the opening ceremony. Left to right: Copiah-Lincoln Community College system Attending as William Winter scholars from UM were president, Jane G. Hulon; Charles Reagan Wilson; and three faculty members: Simone Delerme, McMullen Marie Antoon at a reception for the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration assistant professor of Southern Studies and assistant professor of anthropology; Beth Spencer, lecturer in English; and Harrison Witt, assistant professor of theatre arts. Laura Wilson, a graduate student in English, rounds Previous winners of the Richard Wright Award for out the William Winter scholars. Literary Excellence include Shelby Foote, Curtis Wilkie, Receiving the Richard Wright Award for Literary Greg Iles, Barry Hannah, Beth Henley, Kathryn Stockett, Excellence was Charles Reagan Wilson. The award, William Raspberry, Rick Cleveland, Jerry Mitchell, James established in 1994, is named in honor of the famed Meredith, and Stanley Nelson. Mississippi author and goes each year to outstanding The theme of this year’s festival was Southern Gothic writers and scholars with strong Mississippi ties. and featured many different speakers touching on related Wilson, who recently retired as the Kelly Gene Cook topics. Among those giving presentations at the event Chair of History and Southern Studies at UM, is the author were Jay Watson, the UM Howry Chair in Faulkner of many works of southern history, including Baptized Studies and professor of English, who discussed “William in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause and Flashes of Faulkner and the Southern Gothic Tradition,” and a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the US South. Kathleen Wickham, UM professor of journalism, who Wilson was director of the Center from 1998 to 2007. discussed “The Journalism of the Ole Miss Riots.”

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The Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award this Award winner for Eveningland; Molly McCully Brown, year is shared by Robert Ivy and Andrew Cary Young. Poetry Award winner for her book The Virginia State Robert Ivy is executive vice president and CEO of the Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems; James Sclater, American Institute of Architects (AIA), an Alpha Rho Music Composition (Classical) Award winner for No Chi Master Architect, and author of Fay Jones: Architect. Fairer Isle on Which to Dwell; Shannon McNally, Music Prior to joining AIA, Ivy was editor-in-chief of the Composition (Contemporary) Award winner for her journal Architectural Record. The journal received the album Black Irish; Charlie Buckley, Visual Arts Award National Magazine Award for General Excellence under winner for Charlie Buckley: Recent Paintings; and Jack his leadership. Andrew Cary Young, the president and Spencer, Photography Award winner for This Land: An chief designer of Pearl River Glass Studio, which he American Portrait. founded in 1975, is considered a forerunner in stained- For more information about attending the awards glass innovation, pioneering such techniques as fused banquet and related events, please visit the MIAL website glass in leaded windows and the use of acid etching in at www.ms-arts-letters.org. new and modern ways. Other award winners include Michael Knight, Fiction Mary Thompson

Page 18 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register READING THE SOUTH Book Reviews and Notes by Faculty, Staff, Students, and Friends of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Edna Lewis: At the broader social forces, contextual- izing her as a figure in southern Table with an American foodways history. The third and final part, “At Table with Miss Original Lewis Today,” brings Lewis into a Edited by Sara B. Franklin. contemporary context. This is when Chapel Hill: University of the reader learns about the ways that Lewis impacts contemporary North Carolina Press, 2018. food cultures, through chefs, family 259 pages. $28.00 cloth. memories, and collective history. Perhaps the most compelling A new volume of essays entitled piece in the collection lives in this Edna Lewis: At the Table with an third section. Lewis’s sister, Ruth American Original, edited by Sara Lewis Smith, and niece, Nina B. Franklin, has recently joined the Williams-Mbengue, collaborate on growing library of books on southern the “Afterwords.” In a volume that foodways. The collection uses paints Lewis as a character, an icon, essays from food experts and writers and an inspiration, this is as close familiar with and influenced by the to Lewis as we get. Simply written, work of Edna Lewis, a simultane- and yet permeated with the love ously underappreciated and vener- and respect that each woman has for ated figure in the history of southern their kin, it rounds out the volume food. Though Lewis’s work is known Beard Award winner Michael with a reminder that as we look to by a small number of southern food W. Twitty, and a host of other Edna to understand a “new” kind of enthusiasts, her impact on them food scholars, chefs, and writers. southern, we must also let the people has been great, and her position Individually, they take up the main of Freetown, Lewis’s own inspiration, as a foundation of southern food points of Lewis’s life and explain the inspire us as well. “I know that the in a modern context cannot be impact she had on them, their work, people of Freetown would be proud understated. or the wider culture. Together, they and astonished to learn that Edna Among the work that Lewis is weave a three-dimensional view of took their stories and dreams with recognized for are three cookbooks, a complicated, politically active, her when she journeyed north with each positioning seasonal and wild compassionate, and talented woman. her brothers and sisters,” Williams- foods centrally in her conception Their contributions are arranged Mbengue writes. “I hope that people of southernness. While her restau- into three parts, allowing readers who discover Aunt Edna’s cooking rant cooking at the celebrated Cafe to ease their way into familiarity and are inspired to become chefs, be Nicholson is what paved the way with Lewis’s work and life. Part 1, part of the farm-to-table movement, for her first book, her second,The “Encountering Miss Lewis,” makes or just cook some incredible food Taste of Country Cooking, is what a woman of an icon. It recognizes will remember them, too.” launched her as a popular, if slightly Lewis’s space as an integral piece It’s a testament to Franklin’s skill as niche, figure. The ethos of good, of African American cooking, as an editor that the collection, despite whole food connected to culture well as someone who changed the its wide reach and varied focus, hangs and place present in that book have meaning of that phrase. It serves together beautifully. Although each since been picked up by such well- as a kind of in-depth introduction article is unique and often contra- known figures as Alice Waters, the for those who are unfamiliar with dict one another, they do so without chef at Chez Panisse and an essayist Lewis. Part 2, “Miss Lewis Standing detracting from each other. Instead, included in Franklin’s book. in Culinary History,” takes a more Lewis becomes more than just a Other contributors to the project critical approach. The writers of picture on a postage stamp or some include Southern Foodways Alliance these essays reach beyond the words on the page, and rises up in director John T. Edge, New York person of Edna to situate her among front of readers, whether they’re Times columnist Francis Lam, James her contemporaries and among familiar with her work or not. In

The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 19 her introduction, Franklin makes it King Zeno fails as a detective novel, clear that that was her goal. “What it succeeds as a portrayal of New emerges from this many-tongued Orleans in the 1910s, a regional volume is a nuanced picture of Lewis city on the precipice of becoming a as deeply human, a woman whose national one. spirit and impact is very much alive King Zeno is full of details of life in today, countering the notion that she 1910s New Orleans, which create an is but an icon, a figure of the past, at-times dirty, at-times beautiful, and an untouchable archetype frozen in always complex picture of the city. time.” Lewis, in other words, still In preparation for writing the book, helps shape the fabric of what we Rich listened to oral histories about consider to be southern foodways, the plot’s events and read newspa- and this collection of essays only pers from the time. And this work makes that shaping visible. shows. Besides including excerpts from Times-Picayune articles about Victoria de Leone subjects such as the canal, a string of robberies, and the Axeman at the beginning of each of the book’s three sections, the novel references head- lines or particularly vivid descrip- King Zeno tions from newspaper articles, such By Nathaniel Rich. New interviews from 1910s New Orleans as the Times’ description of jazz as York: Farrar, Straus & with a literary attention to style. like “the grease-dripping doughnut Rich’s prose, marked by short, taut and the dime novel, its musical Giroux, 2018. 386 pages. sentences and poetic descriptions value nil, its possibilities of harm $28.00 cloth. that evoke the senses, pushes the great.” These moments ground novel beyond the normal limits of the book in its particular time and “I am very fond of jazz music, and I historical fiction. The book primarily place, providing support for Rich’s swear by all the devils in the nether follows three people: Bill Bastrop, a description of the period, especially regions that every person shall be detective for NOPD and a veteran demonstrating the real-life fervor spared in whose home a jazz band is haunted by World War I; Beatrice surrounding the Axeman. in full swing,” wrote the mysterious Vizzini, the heiress of the shadowy Rich’s best writing comes through Axeman of New Orleans (or someone construction company in charge in his descriptions of the city in all posing as him, at least) in his infa- of building New Orleans’ new its oppositions. On the night of the mous letter to the Times-Picayune Industrial Canal; and Izzy Isadore, Axeman jazz shows, the upper-class on March 13, 1919. The letter came a laborer by day on the Industrial neighborhoods at night are “lit like after five murders committed by the Canal and a jazzman by night in the a carnival, electricity spilling from Axeman spurred New Orleanians to Slim Izzy Quartet. These charac- the windows of mansions” with “the action. On the prescribed night, rich ters come from different social and music bursting drunkenly out of households hosted parties, jazz clubs economic classes in a divided New mansions and town houses.” This is filled to capacity, and the Axeman Orleans, but major events like the all in stark contrast to the conditions took no victims. construction of the canal, the birth of that working-class laborers, many In reality, the Axeman murder jazz music, an outbreak of Spanish of whom play in the jazz bands, cases were never solved. But in King flu, and the Axeman’s murders cause must endure during their days at the Zeno, author Nathaniel Rich wonders their lives to intersect, even if only canal. They deal with bugs. In one what would have happened if they for brief moments. scene, Sore Dick, one of Izzy’s fellow had been and imagines who the Though the Axeman killings bandmates and diggers, “spit[s] out a killer might have been. Rich’s third sound like something that might mosquito” between sentences, before novel, after Odds against Tomorrow appear in a fast-paced crime novel, blowing “at a cloud of mosquitoes and The Mayor’s Tongue, puts the King Zeno isn’t particularly strong as hovering near his head” just a few Axeman’s killing spree, the ensuing a mystery book. Rich tends to jump sentences later. They deal with investigation, and his oddly specific between his three main characters, mud. “The mud was alive, not only music taste on center stage, with a which distracts from the plot, and breathing but also wiggling into high-energy jazz band backing. the pacing of the book doesn’t truly every bodily crevice.” But above King Zeno combines historical pick up until the final fifty pages, all else, they deal with the smell, details uncovered through Rich’s when Bill finally starts to put the described variously as “atrocious, research into newspapers and pieces of his case together. But where sickly sweet grotesque,” “animal and

Page 20 Spring/Summer 2018 The Southern Register woodsy and sour,” and “a stench his cornet, sets out to create “a Teaching the Works of that Isadore could only compare to new sound that would live forever, human feces.” flowing from one generation to the Eudora Welty: Twenty- On the night of the Axeman next down the river of time into the First-Century Approaches concerts, Izzy can’t shake the feeling sea of immortality.” Even Beatrice, that he’s dreaming until he quickly the most unexplored main character Edited by Mae Miller Claxton glances down at his hands and finds in the novel, is shouldered with her and Julia Eichelberger. them “stained with mud” before he family’s attempt to singlehandedly Jackson: University Press goes back to the night’s euphoria. “make New Orleans the world’s With this same dexterity and quick- greatest port again.” While Rich’s of Mississippi, 2018. 260 ness, King Zeno leaps between the description of the city may be his pages. $85.00 cloth and physical—mud, bugs, that smell—and best writing, the forces that drive his $30.00 paper. abstract concepts—ambition, fear, characters are what truly distinguish immortality—one might expect from King Zeno from comparable books. Like most of the thirty-two contribu- great literature. And just like the “That’s what real music did: it tors to this essay collection, I have fearful people who hosted those made a distinction,” thinks Izzy taught Eudora Welty’s works in parties to protect their lives, all of when we see him reflecting on his many courses, from freshman writing Rich’s characters have consequential craft. Just like Izzy’s jazz is real to senior directed readings. Decades motivations that push them toward music, Rich’s King Zeno is real litera- ago, in an Indiana classroom, a the places where they are by the ture. In its historical depiction of a humanities student said she would book’s end. Bill’s cowardice on the place and its substantial portrayal of remember Welty’s “A Worn Path” European front causes him to lose people, it provides insight and makes and the central character, Phoenix the respect of those most important a distinction beyond just telling a Jackson, every year at Christmas to him, and he takes the Axeman story of a people, place, and time. for the rest of her life. According case up not as a requirement of to Welty, the elderly black woman his job but as a personal project to Liam Nieman expresses “the deep-grained habit of prove himself. Izzy, an artist with love,” painfully walking the Natchez

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The Southern Register Spring/Summer 2018 Page 21 Trace in the coldest season to find Cartwright’s essay is a powerful medicine for her desperately ill addition to the resources explored grandson. My midwestern class had in Ebony Lumumba’s “The never heard of the Natchez Trace, Matter of Black Lives in American yet my student responded unforget- Literature: Welty’s Nonfiction and tably to what Welty called the story’s Photography.” At the historically “emotional value.” black Tougaloo College, in Jackson, In their introduction to Teaching the Mississippi, Lumumba says her Works of Eudora Welty, editors Mae students are “initially resistant to Miller Claxton and Julia Eichelberger the author’s descriptions of Phoenix emphasize the author’s “cosmopolitan Jackson and critique the charac- sensibilities and progressive politics.” terization as reductive and racist.” They urge instructors to acknowledge Their reactions are more compli- “Welty’s depth and range” by looking cated after they study Welty’s photos beyond such early works as “A Worn of African American subjects, read Path,” “Petrified Man,” “Why I Live Welty’s narratives of black women in at the P.O.,” and “Powerhouse,” “Pageant of Birds” and “Ida M’Toy,” which have added to the popular and visit Farish Street Baptist Church view of Welty as a local colorist or and other Jackson sites that Welty southern regional writer. Essayists visited as a white outsider. Lumumba Harriet Pollack and David McWhirter believes that “Welty’s photography counter this limited perception by teachers, essays on “A Worn Path” and nonfiction centered on the black focusing on Welty’s modernist tech- are informed by political, economic, lives she encountered achieve some- niques and contexts. Pollack points racial, cultural, gender, interdisci- thing quite different from some of to “the pleasure created by her plinary, and global realities. the black characters in her fiction.” nonfulfillment of readers’ expecta- Thus, Casey Kayser encour- But Lumumba concludes that the tions”; McWhirter teaches The Golden ages teachers and students to African Americans portrayed in Apples in a class on Anglo-American address community needs in the camerawork and essays “would modernism, along with works by “Using ‘A Worn Path’ to Explore have likely never made it into the Virginia Woolf, Jean Toomer, Joseph Contemporary Health Disparities pages of the American literary canon Conrad, William Faulkner, and other in a Service-Learning Course.” had Welty not captured and written innovators. Pearl Amelia McHaney Amy Weldon emphasizes “our about their ‘special beauty.’” The describes Welty as a “world citizen” human interconnectedness with all closing phrase comes from Toni and compares her late short story the other human and nonhuman Morrison’s praise for Welty’s “special “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” elements of life on earth in “‘A clarity, her special beauty, her very to a story by Sindiwe Magona of Worn Path’ in the Creative Writing special brilliance.” South Africa. Noting that Welty trav- Classroom: Writing, Attention, As editors Claxton and eled extensively in the United States, and the Ecological Thought.” Eichelberger admit, Welty’s fiction Mexico, and Europe, Stephen M. Particularly stunning is Keith is “often difficult and sometimes Fuller addresses another late work Cartwright’s “‘We Must Have Your disturbing.” The thirty-two essayists in “Post Southern and International: History, You Know’: African/ Soul “demonstrate that the very things Teaching Welty’s Cosmopolitanism in Survivals, Swallowed Lye, and that may have prevented readers ‘Going to Naples.’” the Medicine-Journey of ‘A Worn from enjoying Welty can become Nevertheless, because Welty’s early Path.’” Cartwright finds “something sources of immense pleasure and stories appear so often in the stan- historically specific about following insight.” Teaching the Works of Eudora dard literature anthologies, the new a Jackson (Phoenix) through a space Welty provides twenty-first-century volume refers to them throughout, cleared violently by that frontier instructors with a host of mentors greatly aiding English teachers at president whose face appears on and colleagues. Any reader of every level, from high school through the twenty-dollar bill.” Drawing Welty’s work will benefit from the graduate school. Yet the essayists do on folktales from the African dias- lessons so generously shared. not re-trace the worn paths of early pora, along with “Afro-creole reli- Welty scholarship. Forty years ago, gious structures,” Cartwright reads Joan Wylie Hall my humanities students discussed Phoenix Jackson’s journey as “a the myth of the phoenix, the arche- story of soul-survival itself in a world typal quest, and Welty’s emphasis where the spirit and any holistic on the power of place in fiction. In claim to knowledge or humanity has this volume for twenty-first-century been imperiled.”

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It seems almost outrageous to suggest that one of the twen- overview of the session topic or theme, followed by tieth-century’s most important literary cartographers of the four hundred- to five hundred-word abstracts for private recesses of consciousness is also among its great each of the panel papers to be included. We also novelists of family, but William Faulkner fits the bill on welcome individually submitted four hundred- to five both counts. Family played an outsized role in both his life hundred-word abstracts for fifteen- to twenty-minute and his writings, often in deeply problematic ways. A key panel papers. Panel papers consist of approximately organizational and scalar unit of his creative work, family 2,500 words and will be considered by the confer- surfaces across his oeuvre in a dazzling range of distorted, ence program committee for possible expansion and distended, defamiliarized, demystified, and transgressive inclusion in the conference volume published by the forms, while on other occasions it is a crucible for crushing University Press of Mississippi. forces of conformity, convention, tradition. The forty-sixth Session proposals and panel paper abstracts must be annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will submitted by January 31, 2019, preferably through email examine Faulkner’s many families—actual and imagined—as attachment. All manuscripts, proposals, abstracts, and especially revealing windows onto his work and his world. inquiries should be addressed to Jay Watson, Department of The program committee especially encourages full English, University of Mississippi, PO Box 1848, University, panel proposals for seventy-five-minute conference MS 38677-1848. Email: [email protected]. Decisions for sessions. Such proposals should include a one-page all submissions will be made by March 15, 2019.

Topics could include, but are by no means limited to: approaches to family difficulties or difficult families in Faulkner; intergenerational transmission of trauma, • original biographical scholarship on the Faulkner, affect, memory Falkner, Butler, Oldham, Stone, Thompson, Summers, • experiences or representations of illness, aging, or other families that figure significantly in William disability within the family ecology Faulkner’s life and work • representations of childhood in Faulkner’s writings • the family as a crucible for heteronormative power rela- or the social construction of childhood in his life and tions and identity formations, or as a site for resistant world: childhood as psychologically formative; as sexu- performances of gender and sexuality alized; childhood phenomenology, emotion, language • queer(ed) family arrangements, kinship networks, lines use; orphaned children of affiliation or intersectionality, alternate “bloodlines” • family and the workings of affect: its genesis, circula- • new insights into or models for Faulkner’s genealogical tion, transmission, intensity, management imagination • the family as an economic formation: unit of produc- • the visual or material culture of family in Faulkner tion, division of labor, site of consumption; family and/ • the poetics and politics of family space(s), family and/in in/as the transmission of property its built environments • the family and the state; family as site and vehicle of • the sociology of family structures and relations as they modern biopower; the politicization of reproduction by vary by race, class, nationality, religion, etc. eugenics, blood quanta, and other social discourses • new approaches to the interracial or multiracial family • other examples of the impact of modernization on in Faulkner’s writings and life family arrangements, identities, affairs • the family under slavery, postslavery, colonialism, or • war and the family empire in Faulkner’s work • approaches to Faulkner through family law • anthropological approaches to family: kinship patterns, • comparative readings of family in Faulkner and other folkways, foodways, deathways, other domestic writers, artists, or intellectuals; Faulkner in the literary customs, rituals, prohibitions history of family • family-systems or other psychologically informed • interspecies families; posthuman kinship and affiliation

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