McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...describe how crimes are prosecuted on reservations. And it involves a complicated narrative about how Oklahoma tribal jurisdiction has a unique status in relationship to other Indian reservations across the...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...writing about West Virginia, those voices and sounds naturally come as dialect. Over the decades I have come to think more consciously about the politics of dialect. Dialect in literature...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...By putting the South Carolina Lowcountry in dialogue with West-Central Africa and the Western hemispheric African Atlantic, Brown revives the iconic debate between anthropologist Melville Herskovits, who privileged African antecedents...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...what it means to be human, as well as queer and southern, in the twenty-first century. A sundial McLemore made for Tom Moore, April 12, 2017. Allison M. Roberts explains:...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...projects: "All around Appalachia there are photographers engaged in a dialogue to change and expand perception of the region, allowing folks to declare 'hey, I'm Appalachian too.'"5Lou Murrey, "Out of...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...de la escritura dramática, esa urgencia por impactar de modo inmediato. Disfruto escribir narrativa o ensayo, pero en ambos casos extraño el diálogo real con el ser humano. Será porque,...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...his adult life in New York City, where he published with Dial Press. James Baldwin presented him an award for his first novel, Appalachee Red (1978). Raymond worked alongside his...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...McGraw et al., The Sacred Harp, 299. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4Td-xSsAE&feature=youtu.be?rel=0&enablejsapi=1 [360-degree videos can only be viewed on a desktop computer or in the YouTube app on a mobile device. Click and drag...