Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...sisters pose for the camera as just to the right of the central triptych a little boy hoes a patch of bare dirt in the background. In the middle, Ruth...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...common cause with activist leaders of religious and social efforts to fulfill the nation's unmet promises of liberty, equality, and justice for all. Finding his voice as a plain-spoken advocate...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...its separation as genres, white and black gospel can, nevertheless, find common ground with their shared traditions of homophobia. Then Sings My Soul was released just one month before Anthony...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...interdisciplinary intellectual enterprises, perhaps particularly American studies writ large. We realize only too well that just a generation ago southern studies marched obstinately in the rearguard of American studies both...
Vestibule
...love. I don't just want to thank her for giving me the trump card — "house of worship" — I hold in every stupid party game that begins, "Where's the...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
.../ I know just what I'm doing . . . Puttin' you on my taxes already, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." See "Beyonce—Suga Mama," Vagalume, accessed July 27, 2017, https://www.vagalume.com.br/beyonce/suga-mama.html. and...
In the Magic City
...browning air the static that backs the horn when I start it up again. Tyner almost sweats what he keeps just out of time, what Jimmy's talking...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...