Cajun South Louisiana
...with French Canada. The growth of tourism in the early twentieth century led south Louisiana promoters to establish new tourist sites to attract travelers. Womens clubs played a prominent part...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...pleasurable aspects of living in what some contemporary anthropologists and political theorists call a “shatter zone.” Landscape, Winter's Bone, 2010. The term “shatter zone” originated in nineteenth-century geology, to mean...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...to resettle, build new homes, plant new gardens, and learn about new weather patterns. It demanded a reimagination of who the Cherokee were, how they connected to the world, and...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...American history. She was born one month after the ill-fated mass escape of enslaved people on the schooner The Pearl, the largest attempted self-liberation event in antebellum US history. She...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...these families typically live in very new homes in new developments outside the interstate perimeter highway." Fenton,Transplanting Religious Traditions, 32. At the same time, new immigrant families were moving to...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...the public knowledge base that people access through Wikipedia. Here, though, has been the rub. We believe that our authors provide information and ideas that build new and significant knowledge,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...promoted her debut through advertisements and well-placed references, Adrienne succeeded in gaining the attention of more than ten Boston area newspapers. For the most part, the reviews were glowing. "She...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...into the landscape of O'Connor's stories. The place is eerily quiet except for the occasional sounds from the auto sales lot p.a. system nearby on Highway 441. Once inside the...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...activists. Others, as exemplified in Lynching Beyond Dixie, have researched lynching outside the South. Historians of the West have long studied vigilantism, but new scholarship on lynching draws connections between...