Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...comfortable "back east" and in such august company. To Hardwig's mind, this image elegantly captures the "enormous gulf between the communities depicted in Murfree's dialect stories about the Tennessee mountains...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...of "travel memoirs," Thompson seems to have arrived in the South with much of his opinion fixed, many of his storylines nearly set in stone. I've been amused in recent...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...They provide our readers with references to additional resources, allowing them to learn more. An additional advantage is that Wikipedia is not behind a pay-wall. Sadly, many good sources accessible...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...the persistent spaces usually known in New Orleans as “back of town,” the haunts of runaway slaves, prostitutes, and smugglers. Plan de Nouvelle Orleans, 1722. From Library of Congress Map...
Scarecrow
"In a field I am the absence of field." — Mark Strand I. To Dorothy Everyone needs something to hang onto. It helps us keep the crows away. You...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...expressive art traditions. I am excited about the ways in which the archive may, in some small way, help to address these issues. There is also a wealth of potential...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...Wiese recounts how discrimination curbed the African American housing boom, leaving deep scars on the urban fabric Part 6: Dr. Wiese discusses how highway construction and urban renewal in the late...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...to see something less bound by our disciplines and imaginations. It is also a way to alternatively navigate the space of the anthropological field, here being Chauvin, Louisiana, a small...
Red Dirt
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Gone With the Wind
...flickering neon and fire, like Atlanta spilling into the night, and the Princess, here, in miniature, painted by the flickering of a model trolley's tiny headlamps on the tiny corner...