Books by: JOHN SHELTON REED

Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Authoritative, spirited, and opinionated (in the best way), Holy Smoke is a passionate exploration of the lore, recipes, traditions, and people who have helped shape North Carolina's signature slow-food... [more]
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Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing (Cornbread Nation: Best of Southern Food Writing)

This new collection in the Southern Foodways Alliance's popular series serves up a fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them. Editors Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed have combed magazines, newspapers, books, and journals to bring... [more]
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My Tears Spoiled My Aim: and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

With characteristic tongue-in-cheek wit, Reed tackles the questions, Just what is ?the South? today? Where is it? Why are Southerners so devoted to it? Instructional maps include ?Where Kudzu Grows? and ?States Mentioned in Country Music Lyrics.?... [more]
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Common Threads: Photographs and Stories From The South (no)

A true song of the South. In splendid photographs and quiet, musing words, the South comes alive in all its independent history. And not just a South as the North sees it, in all it's flaring cliches, but as it sees itself. This large-sized, magnificent creation of a book portrays magnolia blossoms,... [more]
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Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South

A witty and sometimes outrageous collection of essays presenting one Southerner's viewpoint about what makes the South the South. As the Washington Post said, "Reed knows his region intimately, probably as well as anyone around, and manages the impressive feat of regarding it both seriously and lightly."... [more]
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Minding the South

For more than thirty years John Shelton Reed has been "minding" the South - watching over it, providing commentary upon it. He is the author or editor of thirteen books about the South, and despite his disclaimer regarding formal study of Southern history, Reed has read widely and in depth about the... [more]
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Blackways of Kent (Southern Classics Series)

The Kent Trilogy, consisting of Blackways of Kent (1955), Millways of Kent (1958), and the previously unpublished Townways of Kent, forms a remarkable Southern ethnography that maps the social stratification of the piedmont mill town of York, South Carolina, in the late 1940s. In 1946 the University... [more]
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The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society

First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racial segregation spelled the end of a distinctive Southern culture. In this new edition, John Reed updates the public opinion data to the 1980s and reinforces the book's... [more]
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One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture

In the informal, engaging essays brought together in ONE SOUTH, John Shelton Reed focuses on the South's strong regional identity and on the persistence, well into the last decades of the twentieth century, of Southern cultural distinctiveness. Reed argues that Southerners are similar in much the same... [more]
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Southern Folk Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types (Brown Thrasher Book)

Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types--gentleman and lady, 'lord of the lash' and cunning belle, fun-loving 'good old boy, ' depraved redneck, and other figures--that have animated the region since antebellum... [more]
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