Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
..."what is southern studies studying?" to "what does southern studies do?" As the essayists in this volume strip away the mystifying assumption of difference or otherness, they show us what...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...a too-neat linearity at play—one that elides both institutional forces that lure writers and artisanal bread makers into poor and working-class neighborhoods and other neighborhood life-cycles that somehow remain in...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...and this I understand She wants a freeholder and I've got no land But I could maintain her on silver and gold And as many of the fine things as...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...there are countries that aren't found in the atlas and they have "soft borders" and that these natural countries are "populated by native plants and animals that have endured since...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...as a free-lance reporter. He was a contributing editor for Saturday Review of Education (1972-1973), Race Relations Reporter (1973–1974), and Southern Voices (1974–1975). From 1973–1975, he was a writer for...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...him the job: "that impulsive outward swing of his hand that nearly described an arc, but an arc that in its downward swing, hesitated just long enough to give your...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...he recalled. "I learned that on the front porch at night, when my grandmother and other people would talk about what the situations were and what needed to be done,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...exist that question how photography frames Appalachia: what is contained and what excluded. This effort dates back to some of those images of the FSA Photographic Unit. As Marion Post...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Residues of Border Control
...the beginning that the border represents and are suggestive of the trajectories that immigrants followed afterwards. The residues depicted in these photographs speak tentatively of a successful journey into the...