Regions of Alabama
...at Auburn University and a leading authority on Alabama history and Baptist history in Alabama, was educated at Samford University, formerly Howard College (B.A.,1961) and Florida State University (M.S., 1962;...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...miles away on the plains."1Michael C. Robinson, "Natural Disasters," in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 1, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris (New York: Anchor Books, 1989), 584....
#598, Common Meter
...absent from the flesh, And present Lord, with thee. From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers for Mister Weaver 1. Black Warrior speaks The night before they came, I walked on my river. I had strange dreams: bloody shouts to the sun,...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...variation? For me, getting together with Elvira, Arnold, Lisa, and Michael is part of a spiritual journey. I began to realize that my own language has sometimes been problematic, especially...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (2007) as well as No Ordinary Sacrifice: New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South, 1917–1929 (forthcoming). She is also coediting (with...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...race and class, in a community where his own divergence from masculine norms led him to be classified as Other from a young age. Moonlight writer/director Barry Jenkins likewise grew...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...as, “What do farm bulletins and letters reveal about race, class, and gender history?” Part 5: Engelhardt relates the influence of market bulletins in Eudora Welty’s “The Wanderers.” Part 6: Engelhardt Q...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
"I'm tired of these categories." —Patricia Yaeger1Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930–1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), ix. In a recent New York Times opinion...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...city infrastructure/operation knowledge." 12ward asks, "I know you claim to live here . . . but have you actually talked to ANYONE here?" The rest of his 1,584 word comment/counter-essay...