Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...San Marcos, to Austin, to Big Bend National Park near the West Texas-Mexico border, the film has a vast canvas that contrasts with the seeming smallness of the story to...
"Aint that Something?"
..."racket." Most of the time Dawn stays with her grandmother, who is leading a grass-roots effort to petition the governor to stop the stripmining of Blue Bear Mountain, which rises...
Mississippi Delta
Essay Mississippi Delta region. Map by Stacey Martin, 2006. Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the "cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed" Mississippi Delta as "the deepest South." A half...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...that all the stories worth telling—stories of love and betrayal, heartache and triumph, justice and oppression—could be found in one small corner of the world. Getting the stories right meant...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...Wharton, Director of Documentary Studies at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture, asked me to participate in a photographic project documenting the Gulf Coast of...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Freedmantown. Studio D, which Frank Campagna had opened in his art studio around 1982 pretty far east on Main Street (just before the old Deep Ellum neighborhood reached Fair Park),...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...device to contrast the industrialized Northeast with what he wanted to view as a pastoral, even Edenic, South, Eliot was in truth a Missourian, that most existentially challenging of all...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...the last three decades. Since the Census Bureau started keeping count, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky and South Carolina have had the nation's largest rates of children near...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...artist for whom the South's past and present supplied endless and unpredictable material. On studio and live recordings, the self-proclaimed bluesologist can be found resurrecting the spirit of Jean Toomer's...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Rates in July 2013," National Conference of State Legislatures, August 20, 2013, http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/labor/state-unemployment-update.aspx; Robbie Brown, "North Carolina Approves Steep Benefit Cuts for Jobless in Bid to Reduce Debt," The New...