Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...a new way of looking at the US South, a full color, sideways vision. Wagonload of cotton coming out of the field in the evening. Mileston Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi,...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...writing down, through a hyper-awareness of the place the researcher is temporarily occupying, the seemingly minute details of everyday life. This is important because, as Clifford Geertz—the first to practice...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...Maron, The group at Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 2008. One Delta moment suggested the widened horizons made possible by bringing international students together with local people. A few...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...a sharecropper. Ed Scott Jr. with catfish, Leflore County, Mississippi, 2001. Photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay. © Maude Schuyler Clay. Ed Scott Jr. and I sat together in the cool-dark...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...of racial integration in the mid-1950s, he soon allied himself with the Nashville-based nonviolence initiative of the Reverends James M. Lawson and Kelly Miller Smith, whose leadership inspired the lunch-counter...
Putting up Beans
...don’t wear aprons much anymore. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...present. Susan Harbage Page, Background Material: Chair Rail Frieze, Charleston, South Carolina, 2009. Photo: Rick Rhodes. Welcome Home, 2009 In his large-scale video projection Welcome Home, Juan Logan samples and...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...own histories. While traditional migrant destinations such as Miami, Los Angeles, or New York loom large in demography and popular consciousness, many locales have significant and diverse foreign-born populations. “The...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
..."from Iowa" (106)—vetoed an antidiscrimination measure in 1962, his racist attitudes aren't ascribed to Midwestern origins.) Wedded to inflexible notions of the "South" and the "West," Guzmán misses the opportunity...
Insistent Traces
...reads the poem "Aftermath." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134757059 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134757420 Claudia Emerson reads the...