Watching the Surface for a Sign
Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...in favor of the mosque."3Rush Limbaugh, "Imam Barack Hoover Obama and Fellow Democrats are Living a Lie," The Rush Limbaugh Show, transcript, August 19, 2010, accessed January 4, 2013, http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/08/19/imam_barack_hoover_obama_and_fellow_democrats_are_living_a_lie....
Welcome!
...built. Consider our work in the context of digital publishing and the digital humanities. We will examine issues of open access and peer review, talk about finding and presenting multimedia...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...exceed their own.15Pattillo-McCoy points out that obtaining a college degree is a "strict" standard for middle-class membership; a more widely applied rule is that a family earns "two times a...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
..."place" can offer tremendous insight into the politics of race, religion, family, class, and the human condition. About the Author Claudrena N. Harold is an associate professor of history and...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...so slow to acknowledge the centrality of the environment in shaping the past, present, and future of human affairs, both locally and globally. As far back as the early sixteenth...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...the public knowledge base that people access through Wikipedia. Here, though, has been the rub. We believe that our authors provide information and ideas that build new and significant knowledge,...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...York was a poet of great vision and a deeply humane intelligence. His work to chart the history of his native South and the civil rights movement—its violence and erasures—represents...