Negotiating Black Identities
...Prof. Lacy's book, Negotiating Black Identities (forthcoming from the University of California Press), examines how the Black middle class defines itself in relation to Whites, to the middle class, and...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...able to write during his days haunting the Warner Brothers back lot. About the Author Daniel Pecchenino is a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California....
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984). People turn spaces into places. Historians of slavery have written reams about the agency of slaves,...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
...Southern Studies About the Speaker Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of critical studies and gender studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. She is the author of...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...of life as marketable features that could further their interests.6John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). Tretter...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
Review On June 19, 1911, the quiet evening descending on Thorndale, Texas, shattered suddenly when a group of men exiting a saloon attacked a youth they found whittling wood. Eyewitnesses...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...Coke is an award-winning poet and author of Huron, Cherokee, French-Canadian and Portuguese ancestry. Her poetry ranges from North Carolina where she worked in tobacco fields, to California where she worked...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
Excerpt Any collection that aims, as this one does, to represent the upheaval and diversity of a field that is remaking itself must confront at the outset the difficulties posed...