"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...This name-calling queered the Reconstruction-era slur created by unreconstructed white southerners for northerners who descended upon the defeated South supposedly for personal gain.46Delery-Edwards, 63, 146–149. Closeted gay New Orleanians who...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Douglas Gomery explains, de facto racial segregation in movie theaters was common outside the South as well, but was dictated more by "residential patterns of use." Some southern locales contained...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Southern History 84, no. 3 (August 2018): 579–614; Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002); Todd Savitt...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Nation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), 205; George Brown Tindall, "Business Progressivism: Southern Politics in the Twenties," South Atlantic Quarterly 62 (1963): 92–106; Rob Christensen, The Paradox of Tar...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/same-sex-intimacy-fiction-about-southern-plantations. Chenault, Wesley, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. "Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces." Southern Spaces, February 26, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/discursive-memorials-queer-histories-atlantas-public-spaces. Chesnut, Saralyn, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth...
Catastrophe and Hope: Martyn Bone’s The Writings of Jesmyn Ward
...which often negotiate the particularities of the local, regional, and national in conversation.10In an interview on the southern gothic for Southern Cultures, Ward says, “For me it always goes back to the beginnings for us as Black southern...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
John McWilliams, Hampton Plantation, McClellanville, South Carolina, 1973. In the early 1970s, John was teaching photography at Georgia State University when we discovered McClellanville through Robert Frank’s photograph “Barber shop...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...will become a "world-class" city with references to enhancing the dynamics of distribution, promoting a revitalized downtown, building sports arenas, expanding the zoo, redeveloping the riverfront, and promoting the city's...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Indianapolis automotive headlights manufacturer Carl Fisher, who had plowed his fortune into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and later into promoting long-distance roads, including the earlier Lincoln Highway. The Dixie Highway—one...
The US South in Global Contexts
Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...