A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...part of the exhibition. One cannot "play" this game without understanding slavery's terrifying choices more fully and realistically.5For a useful account of this exhibit's development, see Lauranett Lee's excellent post...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...less tied to place than the other whites in that tattoo parlor—that he is much more mobile culturally, economically, ideologically, and geographically. Reed's unmarked whiteness allows him to travel in...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
Video and Essay Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs. A short film by Steve Bransford, 2010. Since early 2010, Steve Bransford has been working on a documentary video portrait...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...space for lively exchange. In her introduction to The Habit of Being, Sally Fitzgerald observes: "[O'Connor] enjoyed company and sought it, sending warm invitations to her old and new friends...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...in a Mark Bittman recipe. Photographer and UVA professor William Wylie has grown a visually and emotionally rich exhibit out of the limited collections of the museum, some key loans,...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...the couple, immediately caused problems. Women were especially vulnerable. Mary Watkins had been living as Willis Stewart's wife near Staunton and evidently trusted her husband to register their marriage. When...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...time, a bit of a pariah. But it's not like he's the only Black queer person dating white guys. I think him feeling like a bit of a pariah has...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...especially, of African Americans in the early twentieth century. In the late 1800s, a "colored" high school opened in LaFollette that served, at its peak, nearly one hundred African American...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...how many people really care . . . a lot of people came to my assistance, either prayed or personally wished me well or actively did something to help them...
Monkey Puzzle
Video Monkey Puzzle, 2008....