The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...the Theoretical Humanities 23, no. 1 (2018): 157. This intermedial structure of text and paratext, she argues, "opens the listener to wider networks and spheres" beyond "John's relentlessly caustic and...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...eds. Beverly Diamond and Robert Witmer. (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994), 175- 176, 181. The Tennessee Jamboree must be understood in the broader context of the barn dance genre, and...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...a scene from Louisiana Story, Weeks Island, Louisiana, c. 1947. Courtesy of Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville. For the United States growing into its role...
When the Border Crossed Me
...agriculture. The borderlands overtook me personally and professionally. I cannot escape their meaning—not just down at the southern line below the United States, but the little borders everywhere in our...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Patriot resembles Henry Hampton’s Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years (Part 1, 1986; Part 2, 1989) in narrative style, content, and editing. Anne Braden in the SCEF office...
Writing Appalachia
...(2004); Felicia Mitchell, ed., Her Word: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry (2003); Kevin E. O'Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth, eds., Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840–1900...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...The Outlaws. RCA Victor, 1976. Wanted! The Outlaws, 1976. Album Cover. RCA Victor. © RCA Victor. Wanted! The Outlaws does not simply deploy songs of masculine rebellion, it also contains ballads...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta to Piedmont Park on June 27, 1971. Linked still shot from footage of first Atlanta pride march, Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 1971. Video housed in The Walter J. Brown...