Genres of Southern Literature
...during the time, what we see is that the South's race-based institution of slavery was the driving force behind literary production. A southern slavocracy, sectionalist and ultimately nationalist, is what...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...African Americans, in his neighborhood, saying that Mullins got what he deserved and that others would get the same ("Given 150 Lashes," "Overseer Killed: Conspiracy Formed by Negro Laborers to...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...has argued persuasively that the elegy is "a genre that enables fantasies about worlds we cannot yet reach, even as it facilitates investments in a world that will outlast us."26Max...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...with that section of the country. In The Quadrupeds of North America, John James Audubon writes that the opossum was by no means confined to southern states, particularly during the...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Kindaisen to Tairyoku, Jinko, 188. He warned that the birth rate of Japanese women in Korea was “far below” that of local women and reiterated the common eugenic argument that...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...the white male opponents by suggesting that their shared traits, beliefs, and traditions accounted for a common bravery in battle and a sense of common white Americanness that surged in...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and often frightening changes of the modern era. What began as regional entertainment . . . in the 1920s became a national phenomenon in the 1930s that capitalized on ....
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...major battles and the armies that fought them: The fact that African American slaves were bought and sold in Atlanta and were used to build earthen fortifications that encircled the...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...them that did many things. But from discussions with scholars about what would be useful to them, one point kept emerging. While the basic assumption of the projects was that...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...one whole? Can we come together as a community by cognitively remapping a forgotten stream? If so, what terms do we use? What's the storyline for a creek that has...