Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Polikoff Proposal," Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 1, no. 1 (Summer 2006), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v1/n1/4/. Yet, as Goetz poignantly maintains, de-concentrating poverty is not the same as altering the economic...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
Review Photographer unknown, Unidentified miners from southwest Virginia, 1930s. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Amid the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, numerous US cities and states are reexamining their...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
Greetings by Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces the 2014 Callaloo Conference. I am Natasha Trethewey, the Director of the Creative Writing Program and I’m pleased to welcome you to this...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
Review New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition, a compelling collection of photography and analysis on the ever-changing positions, roles, and meanings of Afro-diasporic cultural expressions in New Orleans,...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...but must it be Annie?5Eve Tushnet, "The Boy is the Father of Whatever: Richard Linklater's Boyhood," The American Conservative, July 18, 2014, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-boy-is-the-father-of-whatever-richard-linklaters-boyhood. Mason Jr. certainly isn't Hamlet, but the...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
Review As I write this review of Robert Wuthnow's compelling account of Texas religious and cultural history, I am struck by two seemingly unrelated yet telling events that resonate...
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for...