Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Center, Richmond, Virginia, c. 1965. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. The messages were clearer fifty years ago, at the time of the centennial. Then, in the early 1960s,...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...House Museum.1Miriam Denard, phone interview with author, January 15th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author Donnie sings in the courtyard, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of...
Frank Willis
..."Aaron Canaday," his name alone enough, then a sentence, a song: "Slick was Here-O." Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 ©...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...blood-sweeten'd beverage —Robert Southey, Poems of the Slave Trade, Sonnet III1Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1839), 110. Nothing expresses more viscerally...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...replied "that this was true, since the pictures were based compositionally on the Confederate flag."9John Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide (Cambridge, MA: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976), 11. Eggleston, colorful in...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident."1Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Madison: Cricket House Books, 2010), 149. So it seems for Salafia: that the accident...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...capital and federal dollars moved southward, people followed. In the 1960s, the South reversed a historic trend: more people moved into this section of the United States than out of...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Texas Press, 1999) as well as of numerous essays in books such as Faulkner and the Ecology of the South (University Press of Mississippi, 2005), Speak to Me Words: Essays...