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When I sat down to think about the opportunity to guest edit an issue of Southern Cultures, I thought immediately about the idea of home. I am the new director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South, the physical and intellectual home of Southern Cultures, the Southern Oral History Program, and Southern Futures. »
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Many places are said to be haunted, houses, inns, forts, hospitals, asylums, and graveyards—definitely graveyards. Any place where tragedy strikes or any place where a terrible injustice has been perpetrated has the potential to become haunted. But how can an entire region like the North Carolina Coast come to be known as haunted? Well, that’s »
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In the cotton counties along the river in Mississippi, where there are three black skins for every white one, the gentlemen are afraid. But not of the Negroes. Indeed, the gentlemen and the Negroes are afraid together. They are fearful of the rednecks . . .who in politics and in person are pressing down upon »