"Aint that Something?"
...Gurney Norman's Kinfolks. Dawn's world is difficult, but not hopeless or humorless. The characters in Trampoline may be Appalachian, but that doesn't mean they fit neatly into any particular mold....
Mississippi Delta
...foreign investors began buying and operating Delta plantations; the British-owned Delta and Pine Land Company became one of the world's largest cotton-producing operations. All of these forces nurtured the economic...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...that all the stories worth telling—stories of love and betrayal, heartache and triumph, justice and oppression—could be found in one small corner of the world. Getting the stories right meant...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Deep Ellum Blues
...connect us to the world of the open range and make us all Dallas cowboys. In this, however, we were probably little different from the world of the white suburbs...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...and inspired the world. A bas-relief sculpture behind the four heads presents the plaza as a backdrop for the fight for racial equality. Commissioned by the St. Augustine Foot Soldiers...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...looks, as always, toward the natural world. He defines climax much as an ecologist would: the communities of creatures in forests, ponds, oceans, or grasslands seem to tend toward a...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...in their corner of the new world, most southern delegates claimed their states should have a sovereign right to govern their internal affairs without interference from a national government—largely to...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...