Local Color
...practitioners of local color, writing out of backwoods Georgia, James River plantation Virginia, or Creole New Orleans adapted regional peculiarities of all kinds to plots that frequently hinged on one...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...couple of acres of high pasture or others who had to move their houses out of the sightline of the road. I also wanted to hear from the driving public—families,...
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...in Metro Atlanta High Schools." Southern Spaces, January 19, 2009, https://southernspaces.org/2009/new-patterns-segregation-latino-and-african-american-students-metro-atlanta-high-schools. Weber, Lynn. "No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy." Southern Spaces, August 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/no-place-be-displaced-katrina-response-and-deep-souths-political-economy....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...Harris, we see the region's social contours shift dramatically; however we also see the genre sustain over time the function of adding dynamic tension to the ongoing process of region...
The US South in Global Contexts
Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...
Talk Radio, D.C.
Leave fatback and a copper penny on a wound 'til it draw out the poison, 'til the penny turn green. Tobacco's what works on a bee-sting but for poison ivy...
Six Yellow Stanzas
1. Didn't know what to do at the Boule Ball, so I put on a Mardi Gras mask of a smile and watched those Creoles second-line, light yellow faces, bright...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...to run away, and dysoesthesia Ethiopia ("rascality") which caused blacks to do "mischief owing to the stupidness of mind and insensibility of the nerves" (29). The latter condition was presumably...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Mississippi John Hurt." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Sweep." Poem text. In this interview at the 2009 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, Rodney...