Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
Review I adored Beasts of the Southern Wild and have seen it three times: each viewing a quick incursion into the southern surreal. Benh Zeitlin's movie has received a nomination...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...in north Louisiana and in Pointe Coupee Parish in 1934, the collection featured here represents only the materials from south-central and southwestern Louisiana—the southern rim of the state. Although the...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Grocery Stores for selling products grown or manufactured in South Africa. Lowery and SCLC equated the practice of apartheid in South Africa to the practice of racism in the southern...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...workers, a voice fairly new to southern literature, offered by other writers of Gautreaux's generation (such as Mississippi's Larry Brown and South Carolina's Dorothy Allison), countering or deconstructing poor white...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...to carry the party's extensive provisions (4). The eight slaves speak in exaggerated black southern dialect, and represent the racial burden of southern whites, which the exploring party escapes upon...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...we studied are trying to figure out how to attract financial support around public presentation of their complex histories while remaining truthful to them. South Africa Our time in South...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...counter the negative view of the South that Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) popularized with such amazing force. Even before her novel appeared serially, southern novels set on...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...v. Hardwick decision, remains obliquely in that bed. Detail from Felix Gonzalez-Torres' Untitled, Seoul, South Korea, 1991. Courtesy of Flickr user Paul Keller. Creative Commons license CC by 2.0. Your...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Austin Now, KLRU, http://www.klru.org/austinnow/archives/gentrification/index.php, accessed August 31, 2011; Ben Wash, interview with the author, March 30, 2007; "Ben's Long Branch Bar-B-Q," Southern Foodways Alliance Southern BBQ Trail, http://www.southernfoodways.org/interview/bens-long-branch-bar-b-q/, accessed August...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Nation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), 205; George Brown Tindall, "Business Progressivism: Southern Politics in the Twenties," South Atlantic Quarterly 62 (1963): 92–106; Rob Christensen, The Paradox of Tar...