About the Author

Celeste Ray is associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She has published four previous books, including Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South (from the University of North Carolina Press).

Reviews

"Any serious student of Southern History will want access to the "New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"."
-- "The Historian"

"Gathers a wide variety of useable information for scholars and non-scholars alike."
-- "Louisiana History"

"Each essay and individual entry is concise, informative and well written."
-- "American Reference Books Annual"

For newcomers, natives, and anyone else, this volume on ethnicity in the U.S. South is at once eye-opening, thorough, and engrossing.
--James Peacock, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill