Brushes with War
...1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), and three recent books on black...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...She is the author of A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle-Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) and Making Whiteness:...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...to Mos Def: in America, the only way for a young black man to survive is to play by the rules he had no role in writing. Of course, there...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...of PMLA from 2006–2011 and author of the award-winning Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing. She is working on two books: "Luminous Trash: America in an Age of Conspicuous Destruction" and "Flannery...