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...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Historic American Buildings Survey HABS GA-2390-6. Sam Fowler, 1930 City of Atlanta quadrangle map, Druid Hills historic district, US 29, Atlanta,Georgia, 1987. Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey HABS...
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...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...chronology of Faulkner in a dynamic and interactive way. Spatiality and Faulkner Your own work deals with Faulkner's spatiality. What is it like to be dealing with this imagined space?...
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...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...Radical Race Policy," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 110, no. 1 (1966): 1–9. The US Supreme Court did as much or more than the other two branches of the national...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...blood-sweeten'd beverage —Robert Southey, Poems of the Slave Trade, Sonnet III1Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1839), 110. Nothing expresses more viscerally...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...United States (13–14). Plate 3, 1834. Colored illustration by T. A. Conrad. Originally published in T. A. Conrad's New Fresh Water Shells of the United States (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Judah Dobson,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...control the definition of this disease.2See Daniel M. Fox and Judith F. Stone, "Black Lung: Miners' Militancy and Medical Uncertainty, 1968–1972," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 54, no. 1...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...University of Virginia Press, 2013); William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); and Michael J....