The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...region in southern literature—with the following introduction: I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...in varied downtown and uptown neighborhoods all testify to the primacy of non-institutional forces at work in the recovery. On All Saints Day 2005, a jazz funeral was held for...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...South" heard UGK's music during their heyday, their growing reputation further elevated Houston's profile.30Kelefa Sanneh, "The Strangest Sound in Hip-Hop Goes National," New York Times, sec. 2, April 17, 2005....
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Orange Mound neighborhood, intersection of Airways Boulevard and Lamar Avenue, Memphis, TN, 2009. These numbers conflict with the stated goals of present-day development efforts to create a niche for Memphis...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...53. Front cover of Crowning Day (Dayton, VA: Ruebush-Kieffer, 1900). Courtesy of Douglas Harrison. At the end of the nineteenth century and into the first three decades of the twentieth...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Race, 1920-1944 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985); Egerton, Speak Now Against the Day; Sullivan, Days of Hope; Anthony P. Dunbar,Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets, 1929-1959 (Charlottesville: University of...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...form, regular local singings are scheduled, usually on the same day each year (for example, the third Sunday and prior Saturday in March), and often at the same location. Empty...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...the public domain. What was the historical geographic range of the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)? A mid-1950s article by John Guilday indicates an abundant archeological record of the indigenous marsupial...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...gone."25Saxon, "The Victim," 20. Seth also began to "stay out all night," until one day he simply did not come home. Missing for three days, his father went in search...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Publishers in 1985, Especially at Christmas (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), reissued by Peachtree Publishers in 1985, Mothers Are Always Special (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), reissued by Peachtree Publishers in 1985, Day by Day...