Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...legal property of another. Writers invoked Mammoth Cave to articulate white anxieties about the instability of racial distinctions, to enact melodramatic fantasies of white supremacy, and to envision apocalyptic nightmares...
Genres of Southern Literature
...organizational forms and features instead of its chronological appearance also shifts the grounds of historical emphasis. For instance, to group southern literature under the headings "antebellum" and "postbellum" makes the...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...2009 a major art invitational, Prospect.1, brought art installations and accompanying traffic into the Lower Ninth Ward. A conceptual installation by Berlin artist Katharina Grosse used an abandoned Holy Cross...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...of accessibility and collaboration underpins the creation of OERs. Southern Spaces joins several resources available online for instructors and students interested in incorporating OERs into their teaching and learning, or...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...a concentrated Hispanic population without revealing their identity and being labeled racist or politically incorrect. Online conversations reveal thoughts and feelings surrounding everyday encounters with "the other" that are usually...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...Union generals, freed people who had been held as slaves began to occupy and farm independently some of the land of the white slavocracy. For instance, the 10,000-acre plantation of...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...1998 PBS documentary, online at www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia. Pierce Butler had the impending sale advertised continuously in The Savannah Republican, The Savannah Daily Morning News, and in contemporary newspapers throughout the southeastern...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...records, WHS, 396. SEJ put pressure on Stevens through letter-writing campaigns, demonstrations and rallies, television and magazine ads, and protesting at stockholder meetings. In January 1978, for instance, SEJ paid...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...poems about queer desire, or only poems about his mother. It was never thematic. It was always craft based. For instance, in Angel, Interrupted, he's very clearly trying to write...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...You at the Movies." The Roanoker, July/Aug 2008. http://theroanoker.com/interests/business/see-you-at-the-movies/ Hull's Angels' members pay annual dues, encourage press coverage, and run fundraising activities. Online sites, such as Jennifer Sherer's Drive-ins.com and...