Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...century ended, southwestern humor gave shapes and narrative strategies to Mark Twain, providing him with instructive models for contesting the emerging white racist power structure of Post-Reconstruction. Using subversive trickster...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
...gang. I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes. "Moody…" it was little Gene again interrupting his singing. "Moody, we're gonna git things straight in Washington, huh?" I...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...love's lodging tonight I'd draw nigh And in her lily-white arms I'd lie there all night And I'd watch the little windows for the dawning of day. Well I strolled...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...mob, but the soldiers did little to prevent the raid, refusing to fire their guns. Once inside, the mob freed all the white prisoners, roughed up and "interrogated" the suspects,...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...slave-owners hired out enslaved men and women in times of little work and at harvest combined them with members of a large pool of free, landless workers who lived within...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
...shows and little parties and things, and I would play when I was going to school. Yep, and our sisters we had a group. The first time we started singing...
Belle plaine newspaper
...negros [sic] and pounded up a few more. . . . The man may come clear but he will find it a little different than in Alabama and may wait...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...thing called "Southernness," like these songs, is by now at least a copy of a copy of a copy, with little grounding in anything material outside of the money to...