Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...loosely interconnected vignettes depicting a day in the life of Austin, Texas, where Linklater still lives. Morning turns to night and then to a new day, and for all we've...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Slave Trade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013); Whitney Nell Stuart and John Garrison Marks, eds., Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018);...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...by tech culture and "creative" entrepreneurship like Seattle, Brooklyn, and Austin. And it has not turned slick and rich with retirees and people with "family" money like many other college...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...careers of Fiddlin' John Carson, the Carter family, the Delmores and Vagabonds, and radio producer John Lair in relation to the modernization of the New South. He is not so...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...context, the growth of advanced producer services benefited only certain segments of the labor force, while increasing numbers joined the contingent workforce. Handsomely compensated financiers, technocrats, entrepreneurs, and other mid-to-upper-level...
The Black Belt
...Alabama constitution, concluded historian Wayne Flynt, would keep Alabama "throughout the twentieth century at or near the bottom among all states in . . . property taxes, public services, and...
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,...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...John Roberts set the stage for the Shelby County case when he observed in an opinion: "The historic accomplishments of the Voting Rights Act are undeniable, but the Act now...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...in Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 67. Unlike Odum and Johnson, however, Daniels wrote...