Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Cleveland had a male vocalist in the gospel world occupied such a ubiquitous presence on gospel radio. Tunes like "The Storm Is Passing Over," "Lily in the Valley," "Never Shall...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...celebrate journalist Johnny Popham's seventy-fifth birthday. John Egerton, a journalist and scholar who has written about southern race relations, education, and food wrote this unpublished manuscript in 1987 detailing the 1985...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Viranjini Munasinghe describes the plight of marginalized East Indians in the colonially derived West Indies Creole communities.29Viranjini Munasinghe, "Theorizing World Culture through the New World: East Indians and Creolization," American...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...time, the confusions of identity I'm describing counter, at least as much as they shore up, Jacksonian nationalist certainties. In standing uncertainly at best on Native southern ground, the Jane...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...and Act (New York: Random House, 1964). From the outset, poet and some-time novelist Allen Tate questioned the appropriateness of the word "renaissance," concluding that this literary outpouring "was more...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...facing all streams shaping Cajun culture, among which Lomax lists French, African American, and Native American. The culture was primarily rural and under significant economic stress. While Flaherty romanticizes living...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...her serpent's tongue, is cleft. Nevertheless, O'Connor remained wary of identifying herself as a Christian novelist, a Catholic novelist, or a southern novelist. Of a subsequent interview she writes: Letter...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...they died. Down in the Delta, the alluvial floodplain between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers in northwest Mississippi, perennially listed as the poorest and most unhealthy region in the country,...
The Carolina Piedmont
...in these rural communities and nascent towns. "The Piedmont is another land," wrote North Carolina journalist Jonathan Daniels in 1939. "It has always been a more serious minded land. [It]...