Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...A/C. I sat on a stool, he reclined in an electric wheelchair. It was my first visit with him. He recounted more to me, of his tours in World War...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...lost. The sacred songs and sacraments performed by Mt. Tinna members in 1990 may no longer take place in 2010, but Rankin’s photographs, with their air of solemnity and reverence,...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
Review Willie Birch, Martin Luther King Day Parade, 2003. Acrylic and charcoal on paper, 72 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery. In Roll With It:...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...global landscape. Poor Monkey’s Lounge has been featured as a cover photograph of the Oxford American, a two-page spread in Annie Leibovitz’s American Music, photos in Vanity Fair and Esquire...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...emotion at the Cape Town Airport as we headed home. South African Dennis Swarz told us to nurture those "ordinary moments when extraordinary things can happen," including sporting events and...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...against "the members of the lawless band" to, according to the county attorney, "erase the blot on the fair name" of the county.4Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky, 118, 165; NYT,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Louis Hollis was chair of the deacon board as well as a staffer for the White Citizens' Council and its weekly regional paper the Citizens' Councilor, and several generations of...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...PLOS's criteria for gauging where a publication lies on the open access spectrum are "reuse" and "copyright." For PLOS, "closed access" means "no reuse rights beyond fair use/limitations and exceptions...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...but rather the product of an affair Addie had with the local minister. Jewel is a rather minor character in Franco's As I Lay Dying, but this is true of...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...on following tradition, the symbols of professional identity and ethnographic authority. From the time of Bronislaw Malinowski, the father of modern anthropological fieldwork (i.e., getting out of the armchair and...