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...
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...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...in town squares or in prominent public locations, as Jim Crow laws limited the spaces and places African Americans could live, work, and recreate.1For more see, Caroline E. Janney, Burying...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...photographs. No image became more iconic, no place more marked by photographs than Birmingham in the days of Bull Connor's hoses and dogs. Martin A. Berger's fine book, Freedom Now! Forgotten...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...the oral history interviews for the book? Themes of spirituality, sexual fluidity, nomenclature, and queerness (9:08). Part Four Johnson acknowledges several women in his oral history project who have helped...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...expanding to discuss medical science’s responsibility to queer subjects. Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder up until 1973, and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) didn’t officially rule reparative therapies as...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...reissued his book American Photographs (1939) in 1962 and mounted a retrospective and a published catalog in 1971. Eggleston worked through and against this legacy, bringing pop-art color and drama,...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...on Thlewarle and Mendoza’s story illuminate tensions of spatial jurisdictions About the Author Dr. Craig Womack is an Oklahoma Creek-Cherokee Native American literary scholar, writer, and teacher. He received an...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...were surprised by the overwhelming majority of African Americans in attendance; it was Fourth of July Homecoming weekend for Mid-South black families and a visit to the museum has become...