Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...geographically and temporally bound subject—both books examine the contours and intersections of culture and social structure, while utilizing social theory as the starting point for comparative historical analysis. Wuthnow's insights about...
Sowing The Seed Underground
...low-residency creative writing program at Chatham University. She has published poetry and non-fiction books, including Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (1999). Ray lives and works on a family farm in...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the Scottsboro Boys, 1935. Courtesy of Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Local speakers acknowledged the racial injustice done to the nine teenagers. With a powerful statement, the...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...misery of rural workers under the colonial state. The observer appears detached from and indifferent to the suffering of the hunched, dying man. Armstrong, in an ominous field book note,...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Mississippi, 2004) and Mississippi Forests and Forestry (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001), among other books. His book Green Gold: Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries is forthcoming from University of...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (University Press of Mississippi, 1995), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993) and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). Forthcoming books include A...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Katrina and Intangible Culture Hurricane Katrina caused over 1.2 million people to flee greater New Orleans, where levees failed to protect both urban and outlying areas. I have elsewhere described...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...