Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...The Mississippi that once sported the nostalgic slogan "The Magnolia State" is pointedly nationalist now, declaring itself on license plates to be "The Birthplace of America's Music."3Born in Columbus, Georgia,...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...company based in Indianapolis, Tyscot begin in 1977 as a vehicle for one of its founders, Leonard Scott, to promote his church choir. The label would add to its roster...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...mid-nineteenth century. Plantation agriculture depended on slave labor of people with varied languages and origins in west Africa, resulting in an enforced cultural mélange. Descendants of those enslaved people, and...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...States of America," 1794, courtesy of Flickr user Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Adapted by Eric Solomon. Contributors "interrogate new approaches that have broadened the archive and conceptual scope...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...night laborers, nightcrawlers. Cottonmouths. Plantation houses on Indian Mounds. Jukes. Blues. Open roads. Dark and lonely cells. Government assistance. Government neglect. Lots not yet vacant but long past occupied. Ribs,...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...Southern Education Foundation's website for additional details and rankings of school districts. The highest rates were concentrated primarily in southern school districts although several non-southern states, especially Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana,...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
..."America's Most Historic City" featured an elderly black man on its cover, hat in hand, opening a wrought-iron gate accompanied by text that omitted any mention of enslaved people; and...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Sexuality during World War Two (New York: New York University Press, 2008); John Parascandola, Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008). We've fought...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...that the slaves imported to the Lowcountry came from rice-growing areas of Africa. Central to this controversy are issues of ideology and method that animate research in Atlantic World Studies:...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...of America's most experimental filmmakers. Most people who've heard of Boyhood know that it's doing something unique, though not entirely unprecedented in the history of cinema. Shot for a few...