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Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies

University of Southern California
Published December 14, 2004

Overview

On November 15, 2004, Tara McPherson presented "Re-imagining the Red States" at Emory University. Prof. McPherson discusses how a variety of maps, blogs, e-mails, and weblinks represent the US South since the November 2004 election. "The binary logic of red versus blue does not serve us well if we truly aim to imagine a more just nation," she concludes. In the second half of her illustrated talk, Prof. McPherson considers Katherine DuPre Lumpkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt as alternative models for southern identity who help to destabilize red-state/blue-state thinking.

Video

Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies

Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies

Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies

About the Speaker

Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of critical studies and gender studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. She is the author of Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke University Press, 2003). She is co-editor (with Henry Jenkins and Jane Shattuc) of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2003). Among her current projects is an anthology on new technology, a book manuscript on racial epistemologies in the electronic age, and the launching of an internet journal through the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.

https://doi.org/10.18737/M72C80