Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...deduction."3O'Brien, The Idea of the American South, 1920–1941 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979): xxi, xxii. Although not entirely unprecedented, O'Brien's wedge between the idea of the South and...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Prize for his book Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. His eight other books include Elegy for the Southern Drawl a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and Transparent Gestures ,...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
Faculty and students of the Appalachian Culture Semester, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1980. Dr. Patricia Beaver, professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Appalachian Studies, standing...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...blood-sweeten'd beverage —Robert Southey, Poems of the Slave Trade, Sonnet III1Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1839), 110. Nothing expresses more viscerally...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...historical, racial, and political—diasporic indigenous peoples can and do remain rooted in common memories, traditions, and pasts.1William Safran, "Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return," Diaspora 1 (July...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...singers negotiated their associations of Sacred Harp singing with place. Lauren Bock, 196-86, Gdansk Airport, Poland, 2012. The song on page 196 in The Sacred Harp is titled "Alabama"; the...
A City Divided
...Atlanta, 1890–1930," PhD Dissertation, Emory University, 1974. George F. Cram, Layout of Atlanta's Ward System (Fourth Ward in blue), 1874. Discomfited by an influx of rental housing and change in...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Katrina and Intangible Culture Hurricane Katrina caused over 1.2 million people to flee greater New Orleans, where levees failed to protect both urban and outlying areas. I have elsewhere described...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...Trains: Holocaust Artifacts and the Ideologies of Remembrance,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 19, no. 1 (2005). Midway through the the National Museum of American History’s celebrated “Field to Factory”...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...world, to work for the treasure in heaven. So I sat waiting for Mama in the car, reading the Bible, opening the book of Revelations, longing for the place after...