Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...but hearing him instantly reminded me of any number of gifted hillbilly eccentrics I've known, red-state liberals whose local roots run deep and murky."27Aaron Bady, "Airbrushing Shittown," Hazlitt, May 1,...
Palomares Bajo
...found out the hard way.11Szulc, 14, 19, 21, 43, 101, 116-7, 119-23, 145. About press censorship, Szulc notes that beyond the constant US no-comment, "on certain days newspapermen were kept...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...content. With the increasing number of multimedia articles and features, we standardized the organization of pieces to enhance accessibility. We shifted from pieces with numerous pages to scroll-down navigation. These...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...State, 1540 to 1988 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990). From the colonial era through most of the twentieth century, much of the Maya population lived in the Guatemala highlands...
Genres of Southern Literature
...Dave Smith, "There’s a Bird Hung Around My Neck: Observations on Contemporary Southern Poetry." Five Points 1 (1997): 115-142. Dave Smith, "Cornering the Southern Poem." Southern Review 30 (1994): 643-49....
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...1,438 rolls, source consulted: s.v. P. Cleveland, 1860 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Albemarle County, Virginia, http://www.ancestry.com/; P. Cleveland to [Thomas P. Jackson], May 6, 1867, Valley of the...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...Coast, 146. By taking advantage of the area's positioning with regard to the New York-centered rap industry, a small number of talented producers and artists found shortcuts to pop stardom,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...and Keith H. Basso, eds. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1996), 19. I should note that in this essay and elsewhere Casey's claims are broad. He often uses...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810–1860," Journal of Social History 37, No. 3 (Spring 2004): 709–723. While employment by white colonists—often former slave owners—brought an unspecified number of...