Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...the Mississippi Delta. It is the kind of road local people drive to reach Memphis or Clarksdale or walk to reach churches and stores and the gravel lanes that lead...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Finland. His research interests include North American environmental history and the history and culture of the US South. His publications include This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...and arrogant statement of inherited privilege. Instead, I will conclude by referring to a much more polite intervention that nevertheless re-states the dominant upper-caste and upper-class belief in the appropriate...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...were built for middle class Americans. See Annie S. Barnes, The Black Middle Class Family: A Study of Black Subsociety, Neighborhood, and Home in Interaction (Lima, Ohio: Wyndham Hall Press,...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Historical Magazine, and H-Net, as well as articles, such as "'Living Memorials to the Past': The Preservation of Nikwasi and the 'Disappearance' of North Carolina's Cherokees," in the North Carolina...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...class. He is the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004), which won the American Culture Association's John G. Cawelti Book Prize. Wiese...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...young activists struggled to be treated as first-class citizens, The Mitch Thomas Show, Teenage Frolics, and Teenarama emphasized that black youth were worthy of being first-class consumers and teenagers.72On the...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...plantations were responding to abolitionist rhetoric with idealistic portrayals of the master class, embellished with usually silent slaves in the background. The slave narrative, conversely, is viewed as having its...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...Greek myths. He's making use of classical allusion in order to say something about these other things. Poets have to use what they have. And what we do have is...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...aimed for an audience of scholars and teachers, students in and out of classrooms, writers and media producers, and the general public. We wanted to distinguish Southern Spaces from strictly...