The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...sense of pathos and security in a troubled world. But what I don't like is the way that Reed creates this affect by figuratively sacrificing McLemore to a worn narrative...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...time "when all the dusting and spraying was done by the shaking of dusts by hand from a flour sack held over plants, or a hand operated sprayer, or an...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...lost. The sacred songs and sacraments performed by Mt. Tinna members in 1990 may no longer take place in 2010, but Rankin’s photographs, with their air of solemnity and reverence,...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...11, no. 1 (2005): 6-25. Drawing on more than ten years of research on community change, racial formations/politics, and immigration to southern cities and towns, we call for a deeper...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Nanook's walrus or J.C. Boudreaux's alligator hunts.10Della Pollock, "Making History Go." Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998): 11. Yet to object to Flaherty's...
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...