Local Color
...favored peculiarity, racial difference. Frontispiece from Sherwin Bonner's Dialect Tales Southern white writers, both men and women, found local color fiction a convenient tool for the expression of racial paternalism....
Love and Death in Mississippi
...not been able to get him to come to his front door; she could see through the window into his living room where he lay on the floor; my mother...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...back.” And you go back and forth in front of it a couple more times, and there's nothing in it for the boat owner. But that was the best I...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...line from Psalms 139:12 is “the darkness and the light are both alike to you.” Alike, I argue, in that both arrive daily, and perpetually offer us a frontier to...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at UGA Libraries. He fronted an army of lovers in warpaint and war robes, a Seussian spectacle with signs and bongos and buttons. One...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
Women's Space, Queer Space: Communes, Landykes, and Queer Contact Zones in the Lesbian Feminist South The middle-aged man sitting in the row in front of me shoved his wife's arm...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....