"The Deepest Reality of Life": Southern Sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South

“‘I know your damned photographer’s soul writhes, but to hell with it. Do you think I give a damn about a photographer’s soul with Hitler at our doorstep?’”

This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an book.

Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for the Study of the American South.