Volume 9, 2008, issue 3
Guest Editors: Derek Catsam and Jeff Woods

This special issue of Safundi focuses on the sometimes elusive theme of Southern identity. The idea originated from a conversation between the guest editors at a recent conference and from a question that arose from that conversation: Why is it that when most people think of a southerner, they think of a white male, usually a stereotypical white male along the lines of the Ole Miss mascot Colonel Reb? This project is the fruit of the guest editors' attempts to get some help answering those questions. The contributors include Jennifer Stollman, Mark Andrew Huddle, Gary Peatling, and Thomas Brown, who wrote articles for the issue, and Alex Lichtenstein and Leigh Anne Duck, who wrote responses to both the issue's introduction and the three articles. Finally, Catsam responds to Lichtenstein and Duck in a brief concluding essay. The editors see this issue as representing part of an ongoing conversation on issues of identity in the American South.