Mississippi: State of Confession
...come to the rescue of white congregations in ways that can excuse and blur the history. Such chroniclers have argued that southern white congregations were largely moderate and either removed...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...ways progressive country provided the imagery of the "cosmic cowboy" to bridge past and present in the face of the political transfigurations of the 1970s. About the Author Stephanie Vander...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...of the music that emerged around 2000, but the book gives little insight into the ways in which the music changed since its late 1980s inception, the timing and reasons...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...quality and quantity of its multimedia interactive exhibits. Some succeed in conveying the vast sweep of the conflict in ways impossible otherwise. "A Landscape Turned Red" charts the major battles...
Roadside Architecture
Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...five pillars of Wikipedia. (We also discussed, at length, the ways these pillars, which can seem impartial and good, are interpreted to constrict knowledge production and replicate racist, classist, and...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...what these traces offer when carefully and imaginatively considered: glimpses of the musicians and their complex cultural worlds, as well as ways in which recordings and archival material can reveal...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...both in the United States and Great Britain. The story of Sunbelt conservatism has in many ways been this struggle between the movement's ego and its id, between the thoughtful...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...expressive art traditions. I am excited about the ways in which the archive may, in some small way, help to address these issues. There is also a wealth of potential...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...environmental justice, environmental racism, agroecology, landscape architecture, eco-literature, ecological historic preservation, sustainability, biodiversity, foodways, activism, eco-feminism, deep ecology, environmental law, ethical consumerism, corporate environmental policy, environmental ethics, spirituality and religion,...