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,...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...311–328. The largest public health cataclysm in a hundred years has put to the test assumptions, capacities, decisions, practices, and policies. In many ways, the United States has been found wanting,...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and doing graduate work at Columbia University she was named National Field Representative, Collegiate Council for the United Nations, New York. She returned to Atlanta in 1960 to work as...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...story of sugar. Built by the Havemeyer family in 1856, by 1870 it was refining more than half of the sugar in the United States, producing over 1,200 tons of...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...he did so often, to his southern roots. Following the complex migratory paths traversed by African Americans in the postwar United States, Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago, Illinois, in...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...esoteric that it no longer provides us the language we can use in our class rooms and home communities? My hope is that we can face these questions together. Panel...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...with slasher films or low-budget thrillers like Paranormal Activity, which are practically minting money at the box office. Instead, it combines gothic terror tropes with classic Hollywood narrative and aesthetic...
Brushes with War
...General George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862. In 1863, working as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly and taking art classes at night, the aspiring artist told a friend he hoped...