Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Charles Reagan Wilson, William Ferris, Alex Haley, Ann J. Adadie

The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture was developed by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Contributors to the volume include historians, literary critics, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, linguists, theologians, folklorists, architects, ecologists, lawyers, university presidents, newspaper reporters, magazine writers and novelists. An instant hit when it was published in 1989, the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture is “the first attempt ever” notes U.S. News & World Report, “to describe every aspect of a region’s life and thought, the impact of its history and policies, its music and literature, its manners and myths, even the iced tea that washes down its catfish and cornbread.” The Encyclopedia, a ten-year project involving more than 800 scholars and writers, offers an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation’s richest...