Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...teaching about farming, I got an M. A. in agricultural education. After that I became a full-time rural organizer, working with farmers all over the Carolinas. Later I started an...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...southern culture. The images include romanticized moonshine runners evading the law, country singers meeting their fate in Cadillacs (the 1952 Cadillac Hank Williams died in attracts visitors in Mongomery, Alabama),...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...dying. Their desires did not fit into Old South romanticism. And they do not fit into the new version of history either, with its new romanticism, its world of saintly,...
The Liminal Site
...to consumption, any more than the pleasure of running is reducible to the pleasure (or hassle) of buying running shoes. And though I have consulted gardening books from the 1940s,...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...seeks to make sense of the stories he told her and to reconstruct the social and political world of Depression-era Birmingham. This is not an unfamiliar world for historians, as...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...was going on throughout the western world as doctors, divided into regular and irregular sects, sought to raise their professional status and authority. They portrayed women as the weaker sex,...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...from "critical and contingent methods and theories" and "more precisely articulating the disruptive knowledge of subalterns." Doing southern studies is unmasking and refusing the binary thinking—"North"/"South," nation/South, First World/Third World,...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, and many other books. For his work, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the American...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...dramaturgos que se sobreemocionan con lo que están haciendo y pierden el rumbo de la acción, pierden síntesis. Sí es verdad que alguna vez he tenido experiencias singulares, yo diría...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...would arrive in Jacksonville "with the equipment carefully stored in a converted World War I ambulance outfitted by workers from the Federal Theater Project. . . . He was one...