Roadside Architecture
...photographs that follow are of portions of the humanly-made physical landscape in Mississippi and other parts of the deep South. More specifically, they focus on buildings in rural or, occasionally,...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...enormous human cost of our national obsession with cars and car culture, an aspect of American life that has flourished in the US South and in popular culture representations of...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...the southern land and its history. My series have dealt with Civil War landscapes, southern rivers, southern ruins and the Carolina Low Country. My method of working is to use...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...program of research on the human costs of the disaster. The program itself was supported by the Ford, Gates, MacArthur, Rockefeller, and Russell Sage Foundations, and sponsored by the Social...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...York and Atlanta, most others ("The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf," and "The Enduring Chill") describe " atypical life" on working farms like Andalusia. Writing Rural Georgia O'Connor makes rural Georgia the...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...the Mississippi River to the trans-Mississippi West reveal how a subset of whites and Southeast Indians used adoption, kinship, and slavery to impose and resist US imperial rule. For white adopters,...
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
...Survival and Struggle," in My Troubles Are Going to Have Trouble with Me: Everyday Trials and Triumphs of Women Workers, eds. Karen Brodkin Sacks and Dorothy Remy (New Brunswick: Rutgers...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). As Mississippian Ellie Dahmer stated about the 1966 assassination of her husband and local National Association for the...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Burkholder, "Housing as a Human Right: Community Movement Builders Organize Against Gentrification," Georgia Voice, April 21, 2022, https://thegavoice.com/today-in-gay-atlanta/housing-as-a-human-right-community-movement-builders-organize-against-gentrification/; "Who are We?" Food4Lives, Accessed June 22, 2023, https://food4lives.org/about.html. Both organizations preceded...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...