Vol. 23 No. 1 - Spring 1995

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Image of the South

• From the Editor

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• Roundup

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• Special Report: Banker's Delight

  How to win friends, influence people—and get richer—in North Carolina.

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• Followup: Belly Up on the Mississippi

  By Jenny Labalme

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• Image of the South

  By Jean Haskell Speer

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• Black Prism, White Lens

  Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston's turn-of-the-century photographs show the white Victorian ideal of the Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes. By Edward D. C. Campbell Jr.

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• A Mirror Wise-Cracked

  Filthy and free, the hillbilly image mirrors the best and the worst in us. By J. W. Williamson

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• Revenge is Sweet

  When faced with daunting stereotypes, the east Tennessee writer restrains her dark and terrible instincts. By Jo Carson

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• Plantation Politics?

  African-American Republicans bear little resemblance to their Reconstruction-era forebears. By Ron Nixon

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• From Booker T. Washington to Clarence Thomas

  The voice of the pre-eminent black leader of his time resonates for black conservatives today. By Rickey Hill

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• Whatever happened to Southern Democrats?

  They turned Republican. By D. Keith Miles

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• A New Leaf

  As tobacco production declines across the United States, farmers explore alternatives. By Eric Bates

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• Fiction: Unfortunate Son

  By Mark Vassallo

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• Voices: Reaching for Heaven in the Public Schools

  By Mubarak S. Dahir

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• Voices: Notes from a Feminist Mom

  By Sheridan Hill

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• Junebug: Too Heavy to Heist

  By Junebug Jabbo Jones

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• Blueprint: Lending a Helping Hand

  By the Center for Women's Economic Alternatives

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• Review: Appalachia Revisited

  By John Alexander Williams

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• Resources: Mountain Memoirs

  By Pat Arnow

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• Still the South: Women in Politics

  By Mary Lee Kerr

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