In this Issue

Table of Contents

Front Porch

Harry Watson
pp. 1-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0044
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Essay

Rituals of Initiation and Rebellion: Adolescent Responses to Segregation in Southern Autobiography

Melton McLaurin
pp. 5-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0053
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Excerpts

The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary

p. 25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0004
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The Country Child, When Overpraised

Allan Gurganus
pp. 26-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0013
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On Winslow Homer's Weaning the Calf

James Applewhite
pp. 32-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0022
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The Resurrection of Christ

David Sedaris
pp. 34-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0031
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Thomas Hart Benton and the Thresholds of Expression

Robert Morgan
pp. 38-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0040
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The Goal of a Realist

Doris Betts
pp. 43-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0049
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Essay

"An Effort Toward Good Will and Good Wishes": Folk Studies and Howard Odum's Changing View of Race

Lynn Moss Sanders
pp. 47-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0000
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Photo

". . . choose this day whom you will serve . . ." —Joshua 24:15

Peter A. Coclanis
p. 67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0010
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Reviews

The Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot A Southern Painter Abroad, and: Louis Rémy Mignot A Southern Painter Abroad (review)

Peter H. Wood
pp. 68-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0019
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Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism (review)

Michael Kreyling
pp. 75-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0028
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The Confederados Old South Immigrants in Brazil (review)

John Charles Chasteen
pp. 79-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0037
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Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 (review)

Timothy J. Lockley
pp. 82-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0046
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The Times Were Strange and Stirring Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation (review)

Joseph M. Flora
pp. 84-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0056
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Seasoned by Salt A Historical Album of the Outer Banks (review)

Loyd Little
pp. 87-90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0007
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Passionate Visions of the American South Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present (review)

Anne L. McClanan
pp. 90-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0016
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South Polls

Momma'nem

John Shelton Reed
pp. 96-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0025
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Up Beat Down South

"Make Heaven's Portals Ring": Shape-Note Singing

Gavin James Campbell
pp. 99-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0034
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Not Forgotten

"A Country Boy Can Survive": Confessions of an Ex-Shitkicker

Patrick Huber
pp. 105-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0043
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About the Contributors & Editors

pp. 110-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0052
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