The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...strongly to participate in and include this type of work towards tenure and promotion. Scholars are trying to figure out how to best represent these types of efforts in their...
Local Color
...color writers might be seen as promoting a separatist view of region through their attention to difference and unique detail, but they might also be seen as arguing an early...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...the Schomburg Center and now at Howard University and the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center has been guided by these principles. Archival institutions are best known as repositories of records documenting the...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...us that the best we can do in most cases is piece together bits of information about the lives of others. Given this incomplete knowledge, we're better off not passing...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...status and—even better—bestsellerdom, Stein had spent three decades searching for a form and a format in which to present her writing that might help readers beyond her tiny coterie of...
Writing Appalachia
...alternately viewed either as a genetic and cultural reservoir of America's best (noble poor rural white people of northern European ancestry who spoke Elizabethan English and lived a lifestyle like...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...ushered in the final and most precipitous decline of that industry. Although mine owners and operators had long exploited workers, mining was for many years the best paying work around....
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...an opossum bounty will "protect negro labor and revive their languid interest in the best government."32"Possums and Protection," Atlanta (GA) Constitution, Sept. 20, 1882, 4. Because opossums destroyed crops and...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
..."a harbinger of mass culture" that helped bring about new codes of conduct as well as cross-racial relationships.3Kasson, 112. Kasson's history offers a relatively rosey view of amusement parks as...