Returning Home, Saxon Mills
I walk red roads, unpaved, blowing away, kicking leeched-dry clay. August. Near a lake fenced with chain link, red brick walls of the cotton mill shine in mid-morning Southern sun....
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...from elsewhere. Selfie at dawn on a trawl boat, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by Lindsey Feldman. A week and a half later, Lindsey and I took selfies at sunrise...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the sting and shiver of revulsion with the savor of the earth and sun, of this once, not returning, sung for this one ear, on this one tongue. Backwater I...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...life. On the banks of the Mississippi between Coahoma and Sunflower counties, sits Bolivar County and the city of Mound Bayou. Founded in 1887 near Chickasaw burial grounds by a...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...peacefulness" of the past they had known before the war (55–56). Kieffer returned from war and found a "ruined country, poverty stricken people, and no currency!" Looking out on a...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...the MGs) in the studio and on the road. These influences have rubbed off on the Truckers. On Go-Go Boots, they remake themselves into an alt-country, Alabama blue-eyed soul band....
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...and South Africa's apartheid enforced racial separation, while Northern Ireland's Protestant-Catholic Troubles divided that country into embattled religious enclaves. Our travelling group studied the politics of memory, economic development, public...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...Bar. We were at the end of the second-line for Tuba Fats' huge jazz funeral just over a week ago Sunday. Band members were leaving as conversation and memories of...
The Liminal Site
...full Virginia sun, fail to water them enough, and watch them "mysteriously" die.8Apparently they were not alone. As the leading book on dogwoods puts it: "Take a typical understory plant...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...from many of the states in which slavery was legal before the 1860s, but overwhelmingly from the plantation country of the Lower South, from South Carolina to Louisiana. She draws...