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Front Porch

Front Porch Harry/Bevel, by Aaron Canipe, from the series River, Grey as Glass, 2013, courtesy of the artist. // Fall 2019 Left/Right • 1 ELCOME TO Left/Right, the third of four special issues to mark the twenty-fifth year of Southern Cultures. Backward/Forward and Inside/ Outside are now behind us; Here/Away will cap the series. This time, W our good friend Joseph Crespino, distinguished historian at Emory University, has come forward as our guest editor and we are deeply grateful for his wisdom and vision. Our chosen themes were deliberately open-ended but pointed to the changes and continuities that have swept the South since Southern Cultures r fi st began. I was not sure what we would receive, but I expected a flood of essays about politics and policy, the environment, gender, and economic controversy. Instead, several writers brought us back to the ancient polarities of race and faith. As political labels, “Left” and “Right” date to the French Revolution and describe seating arrangements that reflected support or opposition for revolutionary measures in the National Assembly. It’s been a long time since southerners debated monarchy and the like, but we still grapple with the revolution that swept over us after the Brown http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

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University of North Carolina Press
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1534-1488

Abstract

Harry/Bevel, by Aaron Canipe, from the series River, Grey as Glass, 2013, courtesy of the artist. // Fall 2019 Left/Right • 1 ELCOME TO Left/Right, the third of four special issues to mark the twenty-fifth year of Southern Cultures. Backward/Forward and Inside/ Outside are now behind us; Here/Away will cap the series. This time, W our good friend Joseph Crespino, distinguished historian at Emory University, has come forward as our guest editor and we are deeply grateful for his wisdom and vision. Our chosen themes were deliberately open-ended but pointed to the changes and continuities that have swept the South since Southern Cultures r fi st began. I was not sure what we would receive, but I expected a flood of essays about politics and policy, the environment, gender, and economic controversy. Instead, several writers brought us back to the ancient polarities of race and faith. As political labels, “Left” and “Right” date to the French Revolution and describe seating arrangements that reflected support or opposition for revolutionary measures in the National Assembly. It’s been a long time since southerners debated monarchy and the like, but we still grapple with the revolution that swept over us after the Brown

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Sep 18, 2019

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