Bear Branch, North Carolina
...for the source of a spring on the highway right-of-way, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...like Appalachia and New Orleans. He also rightly calls out critics who have considered Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris the sine qua non of southern local color writing....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...the genteel narrator. Harris gives us neither the reality nor the pretense of the manners and ethics of the South's literary mainstay, the southern gentleman. The well-educated, refined, righteous frame...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Richmond, Virginia, 2010. In the exhibition’s main hall, a large map of the world is colored in bright post-it notes mostly by children who have written their places of origin....
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...intellectually exciting again. If Miller is right, then both popular and scholarly conceptions of "Southernness" since at least the second decade of the twentieth century owe as much to minstrelsy...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...on the politics of reconstruction, gentrification, and the right to return. New Orleans Suite is a creatively conceived and productive addition to the growing body of work on post-Katrina culture...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...for the Arts, the US Fulbright Commission, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing and literature at Drew University. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...they were imprisoned (prison-based gerrymandering). Passage of the bill (passed as HB 496 and SB 400) in 2010, and its affirmation in the nation's highest court on Tuesday, was heralded as a major civil rights victory....
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...similar voter identification bill in Texas. Both North Carolina and Texas passed voter identification laws following the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act....