The Liminal Site
...on his way down—the Piedmont Virginia of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, all of whom would have been alive as he passed through—looks surprisingly like Birmingham's.4William Faulkner, Absalom,...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...cultures that have kept us apart for way too long. Thank you all for being part of such engaging conversations. Craig Womack: Criticism and theory, to my way of thinking,...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...And in many of my photographs, you'll see very little other than dead trees and palms that are on their way out. The eelgrass and other grasses are very delicate...
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...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of subordination in a way that was interpreted as 'getting fresh' with a white woman."2Reed, 12. "If bristling at Jim Crow's injustices were especially prominent in my consciousness," Reed writes,...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...for cheap melodrama, but the point gets across: Mason loves and respects his father, but he isn't about to pretend that the past didn't play out the way it did...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...chained together—shuffled across the Mall's "waste" on their way to loading docks on the river. What L'Enfant had imagined as a glorious avenue leading to the equestrian image of Washington...
Good-Bye to All That?
...a whole. But in some ways, the vote in this county is a microcosm of what is happening across America. When my wife, Jane, and I moved here part-time in...
Palomares Bajo
...be comingled with South Carolina subsoil, as barrels of earth were shipped away and buried at the Savannah River Plant.2Palomares Scrapbook, Angier Biddle Duke Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...runaway slave from Georgia, hiding the fact that he was once a free man from most of the people he met in order to avoid even more brutal treatment. Northup's...