The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
Review "By branding the South as the racist section of the country," writes Brent Campney, "those narrating the identity of other sections have found a foil against which they can...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...the South "has secured such a hold on the American mind that it is a postulate, to which the facts of American society must be bent, and no longer a...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...known as Red Sticks, later forcing the cession of more than twenty million acres of land in what became Alabama and southern Georgia. This episode epitomized Jackson's ruthlessness and his...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...Goodwin would recall the staggering prevalence of malaria throughout the South in an interview nearly thirty years later: . . . Every commercial and educational activity had to plan on...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...in Texas, where a controversial Republican-authored redistricting plan was denied preclearance in 2011; the case is unlikely to be heard by the high court until the Holder decision later this...
A Mess of Poke
...of their growth in late summer, pokeweed stalks bow over from about eight feet, weighted down by loads of berries that ripen from green to deep purple. Allison O. Adams,...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...very easy to come away from the film thinking that Darl is simply arrested, not committed. The implication of Darl's shellshock that comes late in the novel is crucial in...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...and illness make on her husband Larry’s body and the flaws in the contact prints made from wet-plate collodion negatives, a nineteenth-century processing method. This doubled subject matter highlights the...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Depot Street, and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, recently issued by Pitt Poetry Series. Pratt's latest book, The Dirt She Ate is described by the New York...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...sit-ins and commercial-bus freedom rides of 1960–1961. In later years, Campbell spoke eloquently against the Vietnam War, capital punishment, unregulated guns, overbearing government power, abortion on demand, and the invasion...