Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Besieged Terrain
...Blue Ridge is the most easterly part of the range, with mountains that average three thousand feet in elevation, but many can exceed six thousand feet. Clingman's Dome in the...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...RG 92, Entry 352, Box 3, NA. The area Cox selected for the post is now East Ellijay. After choosing the site and name, Cox returned to New Echota. Fort...
Runaway
...alone. I made it To Fairfield Street before the headlights of Daddy's pickup caught me In mid-blur. But I left my lover better: I knifed a tire before I went...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...himself), the study of Confederate literature illuminates "the still-shadowy relationship between literature and nationalism" by enabling scholars to explore a concentrated, intense effort of novelists, poets, and critics to write...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...conduct interviews as resources became available between 2003 and 2008. Before writing questions I would often revisit the MARBL archive to re-read the letters between Raymond and each interviewee. I...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...between the two men. Both Campbell and Marlette denied any connection between the real and imaginary characters under the black hat. In his writing and in public discourse, Campbell could...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...earned her B.A. in English with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Omega sorority, married and gave birth to her first son. While completing her PhD in English Literature...
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...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...'matrix of perception' through which one makes sense of the world and the seat or generator of one's dispositions, inclinations, and tastes" (7–8).1For an extended discussion of the relationship between...