Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...in the Atlanta metro area, analyzing the complex mobility politics of a southern urban center. A recent New York Times article highlights similar transportation issues plaguing rural communities in Texas....
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...narratives helped to define the imagined South for post-Civil War readers, and popular writers like Mark Twain, Page, and Chesnutt. Upon Provincialism's most provocative arguments center on the "outing" of...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...Processing Center," a sterile, inhospitable world where "when an animal gets sick here they plug it into the wall." The film starts to fall apart in this civilized bureaucracy. Hushpuppy's...
Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney
...at the Center for Documentary Studies. Adding to these accounts, below are links to the work and voice of Stoney himself—a discussion of making The Uprising of '34 and a discussion...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...state's center of attention, amassing the greatest concentration of African slaves, capital accumulation, and political influence. For a state that reveled in drinking copious quantities of hard liquor, questions about...
Whiskey and Geography
...County, Virginia, author and filmmaker Charles D. Thompson, Jr. is the curriculum and education director at the Center for Documentary Studies and a lecturer in cultural anthropology at Duke University....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...southwestern humor is an energetic process that destabilizes as well as it demarcates regionality. The South is seen as a moving target, progressing continuously into uncharted frontier territory, its center...
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...