Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...was "less deep" but because conditions differed so greatly between the sections" (101). Lynching Beyond Dixie also has the laudable effect of bringing otherwise forgotten lives back into the historical narrative....
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...if publication is refused. This exhibition of unashamed aggression on the part of the "respectable" must give us pause. The threat of open violence, accompanied by the use of lower...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...range used by the sheriff's deputies. The authorities said they found the gun on the bus, despite the fact that the initial search had turned up nothing. The authorities found...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...mortgage foreclosures between November 2009 and January 2010 continued to rise in western and southern states. Nine states in the South and four in the West had bank card delinquency...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...engines that drove much of what made the southern economy unique in the decades between revolution and secession. What concerns Pargas in Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South...
Artist Repertoire Index
This list represents the songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee region between 1969 and 1982. Bailey, Golden (1976) The Buck The Dog John Henry Sally Got the...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...embarrassed that my photographs offered no tangible benefits in a place that seemed to value useful things that aided survival: firewood, bean seeds, a cut of cloth. Then, as I...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...in the corner of the room, making small talk in Cajun French even though my "project" tries to avoid nativist ideologies about Louisiana culture.2For instance, the ideologies that promote a...