Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of slavery through landscape photography in his exhibition Elegy which I visited in January 2024 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Elegy features three photographic collections and two short...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...the study of southern regionalism. The genre of Southwest humor has received well-deserved attention in the past thirty years for its revealing look at life in the antebellum South. Two...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...bullied, and bribed the southeastern Indian nations to emigrate west of the Mississippi River while the southeastern states asserted sovereignty over Indians and claimed rights to their land. No state...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...South Carolina, 1981. Postcard. Courtesy of South Caroliniana Library and University of South Carolina. Next, Marquez moves from individual Latino experiences to the ways white southerners imagined and used “Latinoness”...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of slavery.13See Blake McNulty, "William Henry Brisbane: South Carolina Slaveholder and Abolitionist," in The Southern Enigma: Essays on Race, Class, and Folk Culture, eds. Walter J. Fraser Jr. and Winifred...
Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman
...South Florida's Mobile Home Communities. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2024.) Reprinted with permission of University Press of Florida. I’d stop by when I could, and usually there’d be a...
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
...the Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chip Hughes recalled the importance of church organizing experience for the...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...July 22, the Confederates abandoned their efforts to crush the advancing Federal left wing. Their concerns turned to defending Atlanta's remaining railroad supply lines from the west and south. With...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...loved Vincent in code: / (F) hearts (V)." This hyper-coded, anonymous and pseudonym-onous form of queer ontology and relationality is the received narrative of queer life at midcentury, when studies...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...continuation of Taft's efforts toward sectional reconciliation as he pledged to "weld into a compact unit the North and the South."3"Taft Eats 'Possum, Gives South Pledge," 1. The event highlighted...