"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...Garner, 1867. Painting by Thomas Noble. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-84545. It was this reality posited by Salifia that also explains why, as the...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Charles Egbert Craddock (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941), 127. What made southern local color writing exceptional wasn't its "mind" or any particular historical "burden," but instead its...
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...
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...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...the Republican National Convention were being paid below minimum wage. Regular employees of Cleanevent USA, the company contracted to clean the convention center in Tampa, were paid the minimum wage...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
Review Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 17–May 13, 2007 ARC/ Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France, June 20–September 9, 2007 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...the Sun (New York: Scribner's,1976), Ian Hamilton's Writers in Hollywood: 1915–1951 (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990), Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974), and Meta...
How I Shed My Skin
...explained" (8) the unprecedented circumstances of judicial desegregation, speaking only in "coded, guarded" (10) language. Photograph of a young Jim Grimsley, age 11, Jones County, North Carolina, 1966. Courtesy of...