Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...is an important book for literary and cultural studies, one that sits comfortably beside recent publications by Leigh Anne Duck, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Scott Romine, and Jon Smith. Hardwig offers...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
Interview Photographer unknown, Tuskegee Airmen gathered at a U.S. base after a mission in the Mediterranean theater, February 1944. Courtesy of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. Part...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...stations. Spitzer was founding director of the Louisiana Folklife Program and senior folklife specialist at the Smithsonian Institution. He has produced ethnographic films, radio documentaries and CDs on traditional culture,...
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...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
The US South in Global Contexts
...McPherson "Wal-Mart Goes Global" Part 5: Dr. Barbara Ellen Smith "Rethinking Southern Communities" Part 6: Jamie Winders "Latino Migration and Nashville, Tennessee" Part 7: Eric Gray Anderson "Framing Indian Removal"...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...Place of Tender Images: Paul Kwilecki's Four Decades of Photography of Decatur County, GA (forthcoming 2012) and Truths of the Matter: Traditions in Documentary Studies (forthcoming 2012). His photographs have...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Back was an effort to demonstrate that the image of the cannibal was projected onto Amerindians or Africans to dehumanize them.16Valérie Loichot,The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...LGBTQ community study, with its emphasis on space and place, that George Chauncey, Nan Alamilla Boyd, John Howard, among so many others, have set forth. This barely scratches the surface,...