The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...University of Virginia Press, 2013); William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); and Michael J....
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
..."protected by the vigilant pair."2Ibid, 74. Just as we must hear a diversity of voices to understand the movement in a particular place, we must see imagery beyond the narrow...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
...his book challenges the traditional view of Strom Thurmond's politics. He also argues that Thurmond became an "establishment Republican" in the 1980s, and his moderate stance would probably lead him...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...of the civil rights movement and later recorded an album with Georgia's segregationist governor, Lester Maddox, in 1971. And southern gospel performers still told the occasional racist joke on stage...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...Studies from Yale University and is an assistant professor in English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Our South (2010, Harvard University Press)....
Artist Repertoire Index
...Bud (1969) *from Thomaston, GA Blues Around My Bed Bud Grant’s Hen Strut Freight Train Blues Mean Ole Frisco Rattlesnake Moan Rock Me, Mama So Sweet Trouble in Mind What’s...
Bricking the Church
...wash of gravestones west, they've buried the wooden snow that answered sarvis in bloom and early morning fogs, in brick, a crust the same dull red as clay in nearby...
The Place of Appalachia
...farms—these and other expansionary and destructive elements of global capitalism are at stake in the environmental crisis. Within Appalachia, mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) is the most egregious, visible, and...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...lost in time, its signs of modernity knocking incongruously against worn machines, buildings, and people. Walker Evans, in particular, achieved new levels of fame as the Museum of Modern Art...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...mountaintop removal mining operations in Kentucky and West Virginia arguing that "in Appalachia . . . the Clean Water Act is not being enforced." Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant announced today...