Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...ways our best example of the slave narrative as an internally resistant southern text. Here is a slave who framed her life story within the twin regional ideals often cultivated...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...a set of empirical differences between region and nation but, rather, on the presumed divergence of a collective southern identity from national myths and American ideals."4Lassiter and Crespino, "Introduction," The...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...hire were one-time deals: interstate transactions did not preclude local sales, and slaves might be hired out one season and sold across state lines the next. Moreover, for many enslaved...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...in work that deals with the real and imagined spaces and places of the US South, but we also encourage submissions that model innovative digital scholarship, activism, art, and teaching...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...detailed geographic shout-outs, and nonsense/syllabic vocal delivery influenced strongly by the native New Orleans bounce music style. While the author's focus deals with the local, Miller is also confronted with...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...until she deals in her own consciousness with the question of race." Only women, she argued, could destroy "the myth of white Southern womanhood" by not remaining silent as black...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...MFA program, while supporting cutting-edge documentary work in photography, film and video, narrative writing, community studies, and documentary radio production. Dedicated to the ideals of social and environmental justice, CDS...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
Jim Bunkley interview. Recorded in Geneva, Georgia, 1969. Bunkley discusses his life, music, and brief work in a medicine show in Southwest Georgia. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...study of how these new relationships worked themselves out, how an urban area became the frontier of racial policy in the New South. Atlanta lies in the southwestern end of...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...“shatter zones” such places as Yunnan, the southwestern province of China; the corridor of highland Africa that was safe from slave-raiding; and the Balkans and the Caucasus—and also many sites...