Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
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White-blossoming trees In front of the house In Sparta, Georgia, Where they together lived: Free woman of color (black, white, Cherokee), white male slaver, and their children who slept with...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...the Freedom Riders they've chased from Anniston, still smoked out and choking on the grass. So much else is gone — the grocery where the driver ran "for help," the...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations (New York: Random House, 2012), 36, 60, 90, 320; Samuel G. Freedman, "Using Gospel Music's Secrets to Confront...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...irony through emphasizing stereotypes of the free-loving hippie and the provincial redneck. But just how ironic depictions can transcend the dualism of the hippie-redneck alliance with rhetoric that highlights those...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...free market innovation. These cultural ideologies, concludes Wuthnow, shaped and impacted religion in Texas well into the twentieth century. Top, "Don't Mess with Texas," former Texas Govenor Rick Perry covers...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
Review frozen, photograph inside Kara Walker's A Subtlety, Brooklyn, New York, June 6, 2014. Photograph by Eric Konon. Courtesy of Eric Konon. Oh ye who at your ease Sip the...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...February 15. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions. This event is free and open to the public. We are also cultivating research around Atlanta through the Atlanta Studies Network....
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...