Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...these archives, making them more accessible to scholars and the public. Presses have published exquisite books about local photographers that combine beautiful layouts with insightful scholarship. The "Documentary Arts and...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...a place "different from" the North. They were also addressing, in a surprisingly resistant way, conditions of upheaval within the South that bear some scrutiny. I will mention only one...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...short. The piles of plush animals and other reminders of the lost friend often remain for weeks until they become a tawdry and unsightly scene, removed or reduced in scope...