Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...phenomenon that “troubles the distinctions between joy and sorrow and toil and leisure."5Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America, Revised and Updated Edition (New York:...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
When the Border Crossed Me
...not enough acknowledge. Since then, I've studied Spanish formally, gone to graduate school, engaged in fieldwork in Mexico and Central America, written about farmworkers, and made films about immigration and...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...She is the author of A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle-Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) and Making Whiteness:...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...of PMLA from 2006–2011 and author of the award-winning Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing. She is working on two books: "Luminous Trash: America in an Age of Conspicuous Destruction" and "Flannery...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...example of vernacular architecture in Mississippi Folklife. The Lounge and Willie Seaberry were featured in a two-hour Japanese television show, and a Voice of America television broadcast to Chinese viewers....
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
Southern Spaces: Malinda, tell us about your film Lumbeeland. Why and how did you come to work on this project? Malinda Maynor Lowery: Lumbeeland is a twenty-nine minute short narrative,...