An Oyster by Any Other Name
...classified by number. We heard the poetry in old names used by local fishermen and women perhaps because Stoops’ background includes an English degree, making him inclined to favor the...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...reservoirs of stereotypical abjection? Why summon inaccurate, dirty cliches about the hopeless lot of underclass blacks, Louisiana, and the marginal Southland, so blindly? I want to argue that these criticisms,...
The Change
...big business in the Reagan era and the slow murder of method from a hundred years before. When the loons cried out in laughter by the springs and the bass...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...relationship between health and migration, Public health and its material culture(s) Intersections of public health with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Campaigns for immunization, safe food, clean water,...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...preparing to stage a legal lynching of [Peterson] as part of their campaign of terror against the entire Negro working class population of Birmingham" (84). Cover of "Lynching Negro Children...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009). Armed resistance to Hamilton's tax on distilled spirits, which did not distinguish between commercial and household production, arose from the high value of...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...to consider includes (but is not limited to): Spaces and Identities Intersectionality, hybridity, identity: race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, regional identity, and class Migration narratives, globalization, queer diaspora, and spaces of...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...small town of Middendorf, twelve miles north of Hartsville. Born to a working-class family, Gainey picked cotton at an early age with his brothers, sister, and cousins. Through relatives and...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...how we represent them digitally. When it comes to race, class, gender, and other inherited categories and constructs, we now have the opportunity to reframe or redefine those terms. From...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...