Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...Ruth Middleton made the decision to embroider the words passed down orally through the generations. Who were these women? The most likely candidates for "Rose" and "Ashley" appear among the...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...not apply to the space of middle Alabama, let alone to McLemore. But, as someone who originates from Appalachia, Bady uses it interchangeably with "redneck" and other terms that generally...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...to mandate local norms but, because of race and class power, actively do so. The resulting "white codes" dictate appropriate behavior, producing mostly mono-racial social networks and maintaining a high...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Industrial South from "The Industrial South," Fortune Magazine, November 18, 1938. In the US South, industrialists practiced a relentless and severe form of paternalism that appears almost benevolent when compared...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...icon. The spiral elements make their appearance, but in this work they are distorted and their perpetual motion diverted. On first glance, an arched doorway appears to frame rich shadows...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...fellow conspirators, tasting two thousand oysters from all along the Gulf Coast. It was the first symposium hosted by Foodways Texas, an organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...family or a particular cultural activity. As a result, Flaherty again left himself open to charges of romanticization that regularly appear in discussions of his work.4For their part Ellis and...
Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
A City Divided
...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998). Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...