Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...of Mexicans in the nation now live in the southern states of the United States (excluding Texas), slightly more than seven percent, than in the Western region of Alaska, Hawaii,...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...Boyhood emerges from what may be Western literature's most enduring narrative form that we are able to "read" it with ease, even as it does something no single movie has...
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,...
"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 John Egerton, a journalist and scholar who has written about southern race relations, education, and food wrote this unpublished manuscript in 1987 detailing the 1985...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
Review As I write this review of Robert Wuthnow's compelling account of Texas religious and cultural history, I am struck by two seemingly unrelated yet telling events that resonate...
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...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...& Company, 1976); Athearn, In Search of Canaan; and Charlotte Hinger, Nicodemus: Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016). Lynching "continued to provide...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Great Migration. Between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans left the cotton fields and segregation of the rural South for northern, midwestern, and western cities, changing the American cultural...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...western borders, prior to the Civil War. South Carolina's northwestern border in 1818 encompassed terrain formerly identified as "Cherokees Country" in the map from 1779. John Pinkerton, "United States of...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...lists of singers who have died in the past year, and a directory of upcoming singings for the year. Still, the bulk of its contents are dedicated to documenting each...