From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
The Best of the Martins, 2011. Gaither Gospel Series DVD cover. © Slanted Records and The Martins. For the past forty years or so, "southern gospel" has named a professional...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...serpent to mar its harmony and beauty."[Fort Scott Daily Monitor, October 7, 1883. See also Fort Scott Daily Monitor, October 6, 1883.[/fn] More commonly, whites cloaked racist violence in narratives about...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...uses to organize his narrative. Edw. Crisp, Detail of A compleat description of the province of Carolina in 3 parts, the west part by Capt. Tho. Nairn, 1711. Library of...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1. In the aftermath of this feast, journalist Don Marquis suggested that "the possum, and all the talk back and forth across the festive boards . . . has likely...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...of ex-slaves in what was to become the United States.6See Kathleen Deagan and Darcie MacMahon, Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995); and...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...training base in the nation, Fort Jackson. West Columbia, a largely working-class town of thirteen thousand in adjacent Lexington County, is separated from Columbia by the Congaree River. In the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...