Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...grounds — is still imbued, however faintly, with the lives of those who came and went there. The 2007 release of Flannery O'Connor's letters to longtime personal friend and intellectual...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...ways. And both elide captivity altogether (though these texts continue to be generically categorized as captivity narratives) opting instead to depict local Indians as gangs of all-consuming homicidal psychopaths who...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...Carolina, chartered in 1663, had its immediate origins in the counter-revolutionary and deeply conservative English Restoration. Its initial plan for government, the Fundamental Constitutions, endorsed slavery and feudal hierarchy. Moreover,...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...to the ongoing debate about oil, ecological disaster, and southern Louisiana, while demonstrating the power of visual scholarship and spatial criticism. This debate will continue as Aperture makes Petrochemical America...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...historical period marked by economic stagnation, political scandal, and the emerging cultural power of previously marginalized social groups. By linking the local music scene of Austin, Texas, to regional and...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...military colonial agendas (85). Even though HyperCities features test cases such as the ghost map series, which evince how imperial tools can be manipulated to serve the goals of social justice,...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...The coastal areas, in contrast, seem to embrace a more Caribbean manner, where social life readily includes alcohol. The architectural styles of the Caribbean and coastal Carolinas offer other important...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...removal required the political and racial separation of neighbors and kin. Top, Map of the Qualla reserve boundary, North Carolina, ca. 1890. Originally published by the US Census Office. Courtesy...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta. From Preface Today, American lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and queers can get married. We can find short-term special friends or life partners on our smartphones. We can venture...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...His publications have appeared in Social Forces, Sociological Theory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Spectrum, Narrative Inquiry, and The Journal of Comparative Family Studies....