Mapping Souths
...on either side of them, diverse, independent, hostile to each other and capable of being at best but 'unequally yoked together,' and yet Mr. Trescott [sic] with great profoundness, announces...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Award for Best Song. Juan Logan, Welcome Home video in its exhibit context, Charleston, South Carolina, 2009. Photo: Rick Rhodes. The blank silhouette that appears on the Wallpaper of Background...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...of Civil War reenactors, at best, and, at worst, modern Kluxers, trying to mainstream. Southern whites have celebrated the family, racial, and historical meanings of the Lost Cause, but these...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...of the Library of Congress. The eightieth anniversary of the arrests brought an unlikely collection of people to Scottsboro: a federal district judge from Detroit; a Broadway producer; a high...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...submissions—contribute to the scholarship in significant ways that represent and amplify changes afoot in eco-cultural history. These vibrant essays move across time and space, some engaging in fresh ways with...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...the unique abilities of music to help "make sense of things" in ways that other art forms cannot; and ways in which the fact that New Orleans holds a deep...
California Creek, North Carolina
...undercut the highway over time, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Sign placed on the job site by the contractor, Gilbert Southern, encouraging higher quotas in an...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...something as yet unseen in its scale, beauty, and monstrosity. The "wow" effect created by art, the monstrous beauty of the installation, the lightning making its way through the creases...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...and sounds. Before recorded music existed, most southerners never heard Broadway hits, for example, except as interpreted by local musicians who sang and played instruments in ways influenced by their...