Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...explores some of the ways in which Andalusia accommodated O'Connor's need for reflection while playing host to an often absurd and comedic parade of characters, many of whom found their...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
Review At the 2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards (NYFCC), English filmmaker Steve McQueen was named Best Director for his stunning adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir Twelve Years...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
Statement In the wake of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, David McAtee, Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, Riah Milton, and Rayshard Brooks—only the most recent deaths...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...from plantation owner. These “truck patches” supplied subsistence nourishment. Additionally, many sharecropper households traded homestead goods with other families, creating networks of care and support. Many also depended upon New...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...excerpt) Part 5: Contrasts Walker’s location in a black neighborhood in Jackson with Welty’s location in a white neighborhood 3.6 miles away Part 6: Gwin locates Anne Moody’s work within the...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...the Adolph Friedlander Company, Hamburg, Germany, ca. 1880. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. As the objects of Bailey, Waters, and Julien spill out of conventional "frames"...
Cajun South Louisiana
...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...assemblage of natural communities that share a large majority of their species and ecological dynamics, share similar environmental conditions, and interact ecologically in ways that are critical for their long-term...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...of freed slaves as an opportunity for textile manufacturers to "organize at our own doors a colony—so to speak—that will be worth more to us than any of England's most...