Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...to death on a dirt road near a bridge crossing the Apalachee River. It is widely believed that following the killings, a motorcade of fifty vehicles, organized by civil rights...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...pretty. The dirt smelled like cats. Nobody knew who the statues were. Where was Stonewall Jackson? We wanted Stonewall on his horse. The old cannons were puny. We asked about...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...fluctuating attitudes about the Street as, at turns, "dirty, depressed, and dodgy" (74) and as a successful "stable social and economic space" that fuels the local economy and leaves an...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...sisters pose for the camera as just to the right of the central triptych a little boy hoes a patch of bare dirt in the background. In the middle, Ruth...
Letter: Blues
...hooks. A sidewalk crack in Washington, D.C. Will feed my city dirt roots. Wait for me. Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...had liked to stop and "rest his eyes." When they pulled onto the dirt shoulder and stopped, Lydde saw at last what her uncle had been talking about, what had...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...tell a dirty joke or make some ridiculous boast. We were drawn to the tangents that floated above and below the persona: his humor, narcissism, and personal connections to plants....
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Scott and hear him unfurl his tale. Out of the dirt and onto the page, through the dreamy veil of imagination, the worm with feets came. My first acknowledgement of...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...The driveway is a rocky dirt road that winds up through a leafy tunnel. The two-story house, situated at the top of the hill, is simple white clapboard with columns...