The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...that such modesty will allow for more nuanced examinations of the interplay between "big" ideas and individual places. It is this connection between local agricultural knowledge and "big" ideological shifts...
Hutchinson newspaper
Hutchinson Semi-Weekly Gazette, January 21, 1905, "Cold-Blooded Murder." Cold-Blooded Murder "The victim was a colored man, Exekiel Martin, about forty-five years old, and the murderer was a white man,...
Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney
Documentary filmmaker George Stoney, 96, died this week. His films include The Uprising of '34 (1995), about a large and violent strike in the southern textile industry in 1934, and...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...free market innovation. These cultural ideologies, concludes Wuthnow, shaped and impacted religion in Texas well into the twentieth century. Top, "Don't Mess with Texas," former Texas Govenor Rick Perry covers...
Aftermath
I think by now it is time for the second cutting. I imagine the field, the one above the last house we rented, has lain in convalescence long enough. The...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...for multicultural societies. Is the US South well along the path of desegregating its history? African American history is increasingly prominent in museums, educational institutions, and public rituals, although there...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...gospel and gospel blues music, but I've been listening to it constantly in the past month as a source of encouragement. I've enjoyed the track "If I Could Just Hold...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Faith examines how a particular Latin American religious collusio manifests in Miami. Importantly, Rey and Stepick foreground how religion informs classism among Miami's Haitian Christian population. In Chapter Two, "Immigrant...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...that is essential in understanding the movement from multiple perspectives, including the life and nature of documentary news photography. As he argues so effectively in his "Introduction: The Case for a...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...