Excerpt from Saints at the River
...middle and place one food in South Carolina and one in Georgia so she can tell her friends back in Minnesota she has been in two states at the same...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...visual media.8Ibid. 28, 78–82, 121–133. Still from Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, 1968. Image depicts Taylor Mead, Joe Dallesandro, and Eric Emerson. Andy Warhol Lonesome Cowboys, 1967–68 16mm film, color, sound,...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...landscape architect himself, “the evolution of the designed landscapes of New Orleans is unlike any other within American landscape history….” (2). Douglas’s claims for uniqueness start with the town’s semi-aquatic...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...superheroes to the DC universe in 1994, Brotherman paved the way for black-authored superheroes in American popular culture. Brotherman tells the story of Antonio Valor, a public attorney who works in the imagined...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...years with the increasingly terse genre categories of writing: Chick Lit, Grunge Lit, or speaking of the American South, Grit Lit. I have to admit deep suspicion of easy taxonomy....
Work
...room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap, of doffers...
Finding Media
...copyright. Creators can choose a number of different licenses, specifying what kinds of uses are permitted. CC also offers a useful search function, allowing a user to find particular types...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
Introduction Since coming to Mississippi in 1999, most of my photographic energies have gone into making images of the social and cultural landscapes of the rural and small-town South. During...