A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Review In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, clubs in Houston, Dallas, and many other centers of New Orleanian displacement hosted "New Orleans" nights, featuring rap music from the Crescent City....
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...criticism, memoirs, and its few novels—from this critical neglect. For him, the short life of the Confederate nation-state—surviving only a few brief years—and its relatively modestly-sized literature does not make...
The Border South
...the secession crisis his administration faced upon taking office. He famously observed that "to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game" and considered its neutrality,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...spent her most productive years at Andalusia. The quiet hours of the morning (specifically, from nine to noon) were devoted, with militant discipline, to writing. Neither O'Connor's mother nor the...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...words that devalue, denigrate, or privilege one discipline at the disadvantage or expense of another An aggressive support of excellence in the production of writing and performance that is creative,...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...rural communities, women's friendships were largely influenced by kinship networks. One's closest neighbors were likely to include relatives and in-laws of various degrees. Mary and Nannie would have had frequent...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...he declared, were separate species and nothing could change one into the other. Mulattoes were a "degenerate Hybrid race" (97). They might be more intelligent than pure Negroes but they...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...and the ways that national and state medical and political authorities excluded South Texas using quarantine to create a medicalized border zone. Later, Fevered Measures expands on this theme through...