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CHILLY GRITS

CHILLY GRITS

By: Rev. Manikka Bowman & Aisha Francis Ph.D
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 Our podcast exposes Southern sayings that have shaped the hosts' personal and professional lives. Chilly Grits is where southern wisdom meets northern culture.Copyright 2025 Social Sciences
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  • S3E2 - Cussin’ and Fussin the Southern Way

    S3E2 - Cussin’ and Fussin the Southern Way
    May 2 2025
    Episode Notes

    This episode considers “bad words” Southern style. How did you learn to express frustration? What expletives did you hear as a child, if any? Did your folks say “cuss” or “curse”? Yes, there's a big difference! This lively conversation delves into the relationship between foul language or colorful expressions deployed on the home front today and when the hosts were growing up.
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    26 mins
  • Thoughts of Harlem and the Great Migrations

    Thoughts of Harlem and the Great Migrations
    May 1 2025
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    What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Published in 1951, Langston Hughes often recited the poem, Harlem asks what happens to a dream deferred, as grandchildren of those who chose not to leave the South when upwards of six million of their generational counterparts did. Our hosts consider their Northern migrations many decades later within the context of the Great Migration. Perhaps being among this remnant is what has kept the sayings and ways of the South ever present and alive in their households.
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    28 mins
  • S2E14 - Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels

    S2E14 - Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels
    Mar 11 2024
    The advice of our grandparent’s generation often included this nostalgic saying as a parting phrase of caution and care. Tune in to learn how Depression Era banking practices gave rise to this saying, which then became a reminder to stay watchful and keep one’s wits about them. The conversation turns to insightfulninstances when the hosts unwittingly took wooden nickels in the workplace, and gave themselves space to gracefully recover.
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    28 mins

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