Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...glorifies nor sanctifies. Nichols proceeds with care, illustrating the ways in which all intimacies are negotiated and far from simple. Midway through Loving, after living for some years in exile...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...discourse about race, citizenship, and nationhood for years to come. Spectacular, immersive paintings of famous military clashes provided mass entertainment and compelling commemorative meanings for US audiences. At the peak...
Religion and the US South
...Southern Baptist or African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian or Pentecostal. From early settlement, religious forms adapted to a stratifying social reality but also enabled southerners to give voice to yearnings that...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...after securing his two-year-old son and running away from his master, to a free space, "those thick forests that seem to hold the new world in their arms" and living...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the huge economic and political forces that buffeted all of us in my little Bibb County town. In January of this year, I came back home to stay for the...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...Then he was lucky. He was always lucky. He bought good cheap land, sold it for quick profit, bottle, and a fast car—headed north. He left their world, returned years...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...eight years ago and other communities that you hear about on a smaller scale. I worry that we'll have another hundred-year storm like the Buffalo Creek flood and the impact of that...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...Reynolds, Jr. (1906–1964). Reynolds bought most of the island in 1934, but Odum persuaded him to donate land and buildings to start the UGAMI in 1953. The Institute, located next...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...high rates of underemployment in states such as South Carolina and Kentucky have increased the numbers of low-income households, as has a general downturn in wages and real income over...