Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...by Luther "Luke Skyywalker" Campbell, who made impressive strides in establishing the business infrastructure to support the genre and providing a platform for its creative development. At its peak, Campbell's...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...to have working class backgrounds than to be identified as Cajun. His protagonists are predominantly white, blue-collar, south Louisiana men, their ages ranging from the twenty-somethings of his novels to...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...Newlin sees this aspect of the humor as an Addisonian attack on foppery and the corruption of the upper class. There certainly is a class element in Longstreet's attacks on...
Genres of Southern Literature
...1856. Map created by William C. Reynolds and J.C. Jones. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, www.loc.gov/resource/g3701e.ct000604/. The quest to classify the literature has continued unabated for...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...moderate position. The Charlotte he governed had a Democratic majority city council and a business class that epitomized the state's "progressive" tradition. Once elected with a heavily Republican legislature, he...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...working-class women embraced (or even tolerated) the principles and values of women's liberation should not be exaggerated. Brody recalls white working-class women punishing her through gossip and shunning for wearing...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...buildings with hand-stenciled and freehand advertising for local businesses. Such work suggests that small-business advertising can be a collective endeavor, relying on neighborhood talent and artistic vision. About the Photographer...
Arkansas Delta, Brinkley, Arkansas, 2008
Delta field fire, Dundee, Mississippi, 2006
Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010