Glocal Lounge
...regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates historical developments and geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. Perhaps our blog can serve as a...
Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
...of Congress's Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection, I thought that these images of Floridian workers packing and canning grapefruits and oranges were dramatically different than other,...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...drug dealers, and preachers who use "gospel go-go" to draw young people into their churches—to show this scene at its most grassroots. Building upon recent scholarship by Mark Anthony Neal...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...night Po’ Monkey calls “Family Night,” and many people in the Delta will tell you that the weekend starts then. Guests are met at the door, either by Monkey or...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...working within scholarly modes of knowledge production. (Of course, the structures of evaluation and review are different at Wikipedia, which is why we evaluate the any Wikipedia page before we...
The US South and the 2008 Election
Essay At least since the 1960s, every presidential election has elicited abundant commentary on the role of the South in national politics. The 2008 election has been no different. It...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Jim (and Jane) Crow. Mississippi Praying contends that white congregations in Mississippi neither escaped the fray nor were they indifferent. White evangelical faith helped make and maintain the social order...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...author's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Readers inhabit the thoughts of fifteen different narrators spread over fifty-nine chapters, experiencing how each family member (including the dead mother herself) views and is viewed...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...of four members of a local white farming family, the Lyerlys. The judge overseeing the case had called in a local military company to protect the jail and restrain the...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of his project. Historians can, in some cases, be surprisingly inattentive to the inner workings of ideology. Gadsden avoids this pitfall, not only in his deft handling of different kinds...