Genres of Southern Literature
...organizational forms and features instead of its chronological appearance also shifts the grounds of historical emphasis. For instance, to group southern literature under the headings "antebellum" and "postbellum" makes the...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...its legacy: Around 2005, Middleton installed a permanent exhibition on slavery in one of its outbuildings, known as Eliza's House, listing the names of about 2,600 enslaved people associated with...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
Introduction Introduced in a 1995 song by the Atlanta-based group Goodie Mob, the idea of the "Dirty South" spread quickly throughout the rap music subculture and industry, and by the...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...records, WHS, 396. SEJ put pressure on Stevens through letter-writing campaigns, demonstrations and rallies, television and magazine ads, and protesting at stockholder meetings. In January 1978, for instance, SEJ paid...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...and subversion of frames as devices that circumscribe the spatial, temporal, and conceptual boundaries of a work. For instance, Bailey's installation, Windward Coast–West Coast Slave Trade (2009–18)—which is comprised of...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...History of Marihuana Prohibition in the United States (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974). For instance, although Bonnie and Whitebread note New Orleans's influential role in fostering marijuana menace ideology,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...possible, either for much-needed cash or for installation in new factories elsewhere. Norris Dearmon, who worked for Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina, for forty-three years, remembers when the giant...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...tagging photographs (for example, the #appalachia hashtag on Instagram.) As Sontag notes, "photographs echo other photographs"8Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, 84. ; we recognize something in Tamara Reynolds's portrait...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...and European religious traditions with current and historical ties to the site as well as a detailed recounting of the history of enslavement in the specific locale. The installation of...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...the next month, company privates earned fifteen cents a day in extra-duty pay felling trees, clearing brush, digging trenches, making and installing pickets, and building store houses, a block house,...