John Shelton Reed
Bibliography
Books:
Holy Smoke: The Big Book of
Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing
(edited with D. V. Reed).
Townways
of Kent, by Ralph Patrick (edited and with a new introduction by J. S. Reed
and D. V. Reed).
Minding the South.
1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South (with D. V.
Reed).
Glorious
Kicking Back: Further
Dispatches from the South.
Surveying the South:
Studies in Regional Sociology.
"My Tears Spoiled My Aim" and Other Reflections
on Southern Culture.
Whistling
Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types.
Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism.
Chapel Hill:
One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture.
Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert
Vance (edited and with an introduction by J. S. Reed and D. J. Singal). Chapel Hill:
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of
Society, Politics and Culture (edited with M. Black).
The Enduring Effects
of Education (with H. Hyman and C. Wright).
The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society.
Articles and chapters:
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“Can Any Good Thing Come from
“Institute for Research in Social Science,” in William S.
Powell (ed.), Encyclopedia of
“Queuing Up for
Q in
“Barbecue
Sociology: The Meat of the Matter,” in Lolis
Eric Elie (ed.), Cornbread
Nation 2: The
"
"Mock-Ridgewood
Barbecue Sauce," in Amy Rogers (ed.), Hungry for Home: Stories of Food
from Across the
“Sociology of
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Mississippi Face-Slapping Contest: The Many Meanings
of the Confederate Flag.
“Among the
Baptists: Reflections of an
"Introduction"
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J. Singal; 1982) reprinted
in Glenn Feldman (ed.), Reading Southern History: Interpreters and
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"Capture the Flag, Part I" (reprinted from Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture), in Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters 24, no.1 (Winter 2001): 156-159.
"Southern Culture--On the Skids?"
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"
“Introduction” to Kathryn Tucker
“The Man from
“Southern Discomfort: A Southerner Revisits Cool Hand Luke, AMC: American Movie Classics Magazine, November 2000, 4-6.
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"The Decline (and Return?) of Localism," The American
"The Black and the Gray: An Interview with Tony Horwitz," Southern Cultures 4, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 5-15.
"Mixing in the Mountains," Southern Cultures 3, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 25-36.
"What's Southern about the South?" in Crimes of the Heart: Programme. Edinborough: Royal Lyceum Theatre, 1997.
"On the Agrarians' I'll Take My
Stand," in David Perkins (ed.), Books of Passage: 27 North Carolina
Writers on Books That Changed Their Lives.
"The 3 Souths,"
in Centennial Olympic Games: Official Souvenir Program.
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"`Millways'
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of Kent, new edition.
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and "Precious Memories" (from Whistling Dixie), in
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"Bubba Hubbub," Reason 24, no. 6 (November 1992): 45-47. Reprinted: Charlotte Observer, 1 November 1992.
"Evaluating the Readability of Informed Consent Forms Used in Contraceptive Clinical Trials" (with R. Rivera and D. Menius), International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 38 (July 1992):227-30.
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University,
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Document Sets for the South in
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Sectionalism reprinted in Paul D. Escott
and David R. Goldfield (eds.), Major Problems in the History of the American
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University,
"Informed Consent," Society 27 (November‑December 1989): 25‑27.
"On Narrative and Sociology," Social Forces 68 (September 1989): 1‑14.
“‘Giddy Young Men’: A Counter‑Cultural Aspect of
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Social Research (vol. 11: "Culture").
"Sports and Recreation" (with
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“‘A Female Movement’: The Feminization of Nineteenth‑Century Anglo‑Catholicism,” Anglican and Episcopal History 57 (June 1988):199‑238.
“‘Ritualism Rampant in
"Playboy's Southern Exposure" (with A. Manuel and
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"Too Good to Be False: An Essay in the Folklore of Social Science" (with G. Doss and J. Hurlbert), Sociological Inquiry 57 (Winter 1987):1‑11.
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"The Prevailing
South?"
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"Minding the South," Southern Literary Journal 16 (Spring 1984):110‑17.
"Max Weber's Relatives and Other Distractions:
Sociology in the South," in Merle Black and J. S. Reed (eds.), Perspectives
on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture,
vol. II.
"Life and Leisure in the New South,"
"Cultural Choice Among Southerners: Seven Patterns" (with P. Marsden), American Behavioral Scientist 26 (March‑April 1983):479‑92.
(as "Elias Jones") "Tenure, Anyone?" Hillsdale Review 4 (Winter 1982-83: 20-23, 44-47.
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“Blacks and Southerners: A Research Note" (with M. Black), Journal of Politics 44 (February 1982):165‑71.
"Below the Smith and Wesson Line: Reflections on
Southern Violence," in Merle Black and J. S. Reed (eds.), Perspectives
on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture,
vol. I.
"How Not to Measure What a University Does," Chronicle
of Higher Education 22, no. 12 (11 May 1981), 56. Reprinted:
"The Same Old
Stand?" in Fifteen Southerners, Why the South Will Survive.
"Sex
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Ethnic Groups.
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Portrait of a Culture.
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Acculturation of Southern Jews," Ethnicity 6 (1979):97‑106.
Reprinted: Melvin Urofsky
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Southern Jewry.
"A Fertility Reaction to a Historical Event: Southern
White Birthrates and the 1954 Desegregation Ruling" (with R. Rindfuss and C. St. John), Science
201 (14 July 1978):178‑80. Reprinted:
Frank Bean and Parker Frisbie (eds.), The Demography of Racial and Ethnic Groups.
"Available Evidence
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Test Score Decline.
"The Heart of
"Needles in Haystacks: Studying 'Rare' Populations by Secondary Analysis of National Sample Surveys," Public Opinion Quarterly 39 (Winter 1975‑76): 514‑22.
"New Problems, Old Resources: Continuity in Southern
Culture," in Harold F. Kaufman, J.Kenneth
Morland, and Herbert H. Fockler (eds.), Group Identity
in the South: Dialogue Between
the Technological and the Humanistic.
"Summertime and the Livin' is Easy: The Quality of Life in the
South," University of North Carolina News Letter 59 (December
1974), 1‑4. Reprinted:
"Of Happiness and Despair We Have No Measure," The
“‘The Cardinal Test of a Southerner’: Not Race but Geography,” Public Opinion Quarterly 37 (Summer 1973):232‑40.
"Can Attitudes Be Changed?" Lifelines: A Journal on Alcoholism, January 1973, 3 ff.
"The Peculiar
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Contributing Writer, The
South Polls," quarterly in Southern Cultures (1993-2002).
Columnist for Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books (1997-2000).
Column, "Letter from the Lower Right," in Chronicles:
A Magazine of American Culture (1986-1994);
reprinted as "Whistling
Essays, verse, and miscellaneous ephemera in The American Enterprise, American Jewish History, The American Spectator (formerly The Alternative); Atlanta Journal-Constitution; The Baker Street Journal; Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books; Carolina Alumni Review; The Critic (U. of N.C., Chapel Hill); Dixie Liberator (Sons of Confederate Veterans, Tenn. Divison); Endeavors (UNC-CH Office of Research Services); Footnotes (American Sociological Association); Greensboro News and Record; K‑News (Kaypro users' newsletter); Mandate (Prayer Book Society of the Episcopal Church); Pig Tales (North Carolina Barbecue Society); Raleigh News and Observer; Raleigh Reporter; The Right Direction (Conservative Society of North Carolina); Scottish Affairs, Social Science News Letter; Southern Living; Southern Partisan; Southern Reader; Southern Sociologist; The Southerner; Square Talk (Birmingham, Ala.); VooDoo (M.I.T.); Wall Street Journal, Washington Times; Wilmington (N.C.) Sunday Star-News).
Book reviews in The American Enterprise; American Journal of Sociology; Appalachian Journal; Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture (formerly Chronicles of Culture); Contemporary Sociology; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Georgia Historical Quarterly; Intercollegiate Review; International Review of Modern Sociology; Jerusalem Post Magazine; Journal of Southern History; National Review; Oxford American; Palm Beach Post; Phylon; Raleigh News and Observer; Reason; Reviews in Religion and Theology; St Catharine's College Society Magazine; Social Forces; Sociation (N.C. Sociological Association); Southern Cultures; Southern Magazine; Southwestern Historical Quarterly; Times Literary Supplement (London); Tobacco Observer; Wall Street Journal; Washington Monthly; Washington Post; Weekly Standard.