Zircon
...of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Dark Energy (Penguin, 2015). He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek (1999), a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek,...
The Place of Appalachia
...a repertoire of vicious stereotypes of Appalachian people. The persistence of corporate domination and offensive hillbilly stereotypes has reinforced this perspective over time, with the unfortunate result that reductive moralisms...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
.../ I speak to you. / I am a person, I am a person and that is enough.” “Playtime,” also from 1982, includes a round-like chorus: “Playtime / Run until...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...attention on how the “injuries of time and weather” transform both the church and surrounding landscape.8Tom Rankin, “The Injuries of Time and Weather,” Southern Cultures 13, No. 2, (Summer 2007):...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...York Times called it "the most hated show of the year."3Gene Thompson, "Photography Found a Home in Art Galleries," The New York Times, December 26, 1976, 29. The criticism gave...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Asheville," Asheville Citizen-Times, August 6, 2013, http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20130806/NEWS/308060023/Protest-packs-Asheville; "McCrory Image Plummets," Public Policy Polling, July 16, 2013, http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/pat-mccrory/; and John Frank, "Under the Dome," Raleigh News and Observer, August 14, 2013,...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...the living-dead ontological divide. In rebuilding Pulse, we rebuild the vital solidarity that queer spaces engender and foster simultaneously in times of dance and revelry and in times of loss...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...