Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...sing to heal the language of its long service as a tool. Greatest of the fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, I do not know about the god of the fathers,...
The Chimney
...will think of him, long ago pulling the penny from his pocket and pressing it against the drying chimney, leaving his long thumbprint swirling. Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...important point about the longer history of contraband: non-violent amateurs have been responsible for the majority of smuggling across the US-Mexico border. Further, most contraband consists of consumer goods, not...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...As Steve Suits argued persuasively in his analysis of the resurgence of state sovereignty arguments, the long-term impact of this historic Supreme Court decision and subsequent voter identification bills remains...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...long as users give credit to the original work. A CC BY license also allows for derivative works. An author might choose this license if she wants to provide the...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...of male vulnerability and heartache. Nelson's "You Left a Long, Long Time Ago" tells of the painful dissolution of a romantic union. Jennings's "Slow Movin' Outlaw" portrays the fragility of...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...into and out of Virginia pre-dated and paralleled the early colonists'. Pocohontas, for example, was preparing to return to Virginia when she died in England. Had she lived longer, her pattern...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...esoteric that it no longer provides us the language we can use in our class rooms and home communities? My hope is that we can face these questions together. Panel...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...