Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...the road with Dr. John (Mac Rebennack). He refers to his time with Dr. John as his "college education," watching and listening to a master at work. In 1972, after...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...critical scholarship, Matt Brim's Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University is at the top of my list right now. Brim reorients queer studies to an anti-elitist and anti-racist...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...thoughtful deliberation and intellectual honesty. Cherokee stickball game, Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies, Mars Hill University, November 8, 2011. Photograph by Hannah Furgiuele. Courtesy of the Liston B....
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...importance of race in persistent southern distinctiveness Part 6: Egerton calls for further research, highlighting a list of potential contributions about neglected subjects About John Egerton John Egerton was born in...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...her serpent's tongue, is cleft. Nevertheless, O'Connor remained wary of identifying herself as a Christian novelist, a Catholic novelist, or a southern novelist. Of a subsequent interview she writes: Letter...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...depravity—what Jason Huettner has called "poverty porn."15Jason Huettner, "Capitalist Realism or Poverty Porn?" Hyperallergic, July 7, 2011, https://hyperallergic.com/28555/capitalist-realism-or-poverty-porn. See also Larry Vonalt, "The Dignity of Shelby Lee Adams's 'Disturbing' Family...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...in 1978 was labor intensive rather than capital intensive. It operated outside traditional capitalist models. Sam Hamill referred to nonprofit Copper Canyon as "life outside the mainstream capitalist economy, living...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...the 1770s William Bartram’s list of forty-three Cherokee towns noted "Allagae" as a settlement located on "the waters of other rivers," those he had not traversed.8Bartram listed the Tennessee, Savannah,...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...black farmers had organized into movements defined strictly by race, including Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, the National Federation of Colored Farmers, white supremacist socialist groups, and the Ku...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...A masterful raconteur and an exceptional listener, gracious even toward admiring strangers who shoved their way into his privacy, he concealed a basic unhappiness behind a self-effacement that discouraged intimacy....