Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...of the US South have trended toward abjection, others have headed in a romantic direction, imagining the South as a land not of poverty but of resistance to materialism; not...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...distance—a privilege that allows a person to see beauty in decay or poverty rather than directly experience it. Clay shares this privilege of perception with the other photographers of the...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). While Sakakeeny argues it would be simplistic and essentialist to draw a direct line between the...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...believe in the thing called art . . . I think people just make stuff."2Proceed and be Bold!, directed by Laura Zinger (Chicago: Brown Finch Films, 2008), DVD. Following this...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...before choosing a direction and setting out to escape. The landscapes through which you navigate are beautifully rendered films, accompanied by sounds from the Virginia fields, forests, swamps, and woods....
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...contributed to the content/ of this online presentation of the Prop Master exhibit. Gibbes Executive Director and Chief Curator Angela Mack conceived of the idea to contact Susan and Juan...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...already been on the subway system in Manhattan) had an unerring sense of direction. Faulkner never denied being southern, and he was among the first to acknowledge the existence of...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Franco as Darl Bundren, 2013. Photograph by Alissa Whelan.© RabbitBandini Productions. Franco isn't Darl's only problem, though since the actor also directed and co-wrote (with Matt Rager) the project, I...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...They At project," Amistad's Director of Library and Reference Services, Chris Harter, says, "have placed the Center at the forefront of efforts to document and preserve materials that chronicle the...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...