Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...residents were renters. Given the demographics, one might suppose that Creekridge Park represents a well-integrated racial and ethnic neighborhood. However, drawing on interviews, surveys, and participant observation, Mayorga-Gallo, an assistant...
Remnants of Flannery
...the grotesque southern Gothicism of her written work.) And yet, far from being reduced to a convenient sound bite, O'Connor's sensibilities have infiltrated society in far-reaching ways: what might O'Connor...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Smokey Bear. However, foresters such as Yale professor H. H. Chapman, and Austin Cary and Eloise Gerry of the US Forest Service, demonstrated their understanding of fire as a management...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...Eggleston moves in close and transforms fragments of his South into pop art. In the early 1970s, his work circulated in an art world saturated with color, drama, and the...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
Presentation Part 1: Tom Rankin introduces the life and work of Paul Kwilecki and his relationship to Decatur County, Georgia. Part 2: Rankin discusses the evolution of Kwilecki's photographic style...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...aerated pond. But Mississippi's fertile crescent grows more than its commodities. It spawns paradox and polemic. Starkness and cacophony. Plenty and need. And of course, black and white. My childhood...
How I Shed My Skin
...the University of North Carolina, Grimsley migrates to the queer mecca of New Orleans. By memoir's end, Violet (one of the three students who integrated Grimsley's middle school, the one...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...explores the contradictions of the 1930s and 1940s writings of the Lone Star regionalists (folklorist Frank J. Dobie, historian Walter Prescott Webb, and naturalist Roy Bedicheck) associated with the University...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...impressed with the size of the crowd and the energy at the rally staged by the United Mine Workers. He also mentioned that it was a well-integrated event—about a fifth...