Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...the University of Texas at Austin. He recently published the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America (Athens:...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...offices of the Atlanta Constitution, bearing placards with the inscription "Free America from Jewish Domination."6Arthur J. Levin, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Atlanta office, circular, August 15, 1952, box 46,...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...a central theme in the work of many self-identified black southerners, including Scott-Heron.5Davis, 64. Cover of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's From South Africa to South Carolina, 1976. Much of...
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...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Congress Geography and Map Division, 2004626926. Henry Popple, A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto, 1733. Library of Congress Geography and...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-28311. Adding incentives to force minorities to the Eastside, the city improved segregated...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...and Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), 1–5. Randall Balmer, My Eyes of Have Seen the Glory: A Journey Into the Evangelical Subculture in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006);...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Press, 1984); Carl A. Brasseaux, "Four Hundred Years of Acadian Life in North America," Journal of Popular Culture 23, No. 1 (Summer 1989): 3–22; Michael James Forêt, "A Cookbook view of...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...bill. Illustration by Adrian Kinloch. Courtesy of Adrian Kinloch, steveinskeep.com/the-john-ross-20-bill/. The best aspect of Inskeep's book may be its title—or rather the idea of America and the South implied by...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...of color, Dabney exemplified the nexus of race and class in early America and epitomizes "the trajectory of blacks in Georgia" (2). For Jennison, a bifurcated society of white versus...