Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of John A. Lomax (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996); Szwed, Alan Lomax. "The best pay-dirt I struck in Louisiana," he recalled, "was a young woman who worked in a...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
The Carolina Piedmont
...all that is "southern," it has a distinctive history and geography. A yeoman farming society took shape in this region, formed, as cultural geographer D. W. Meinig has written, "by...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Shand, and I had a pick-your-own at that point. Then I hired a woman, who was likely in her seventies, and she came with her two grandchildren, and they helped...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...concerns an elite light-skinned woman who discovers that she is a slave at the time of her father's death. Here, Warren rewrites the story of the "tragic mulatta" told in...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Southern history. See Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985) for an interpretation that stresses...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
..."contain criminal inspiration for four or five youths." To solidify the link between marijuana use and crime, Maureau affirmed that a man "arrested recently for the murder of a woman...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...T. Buford, First Lieutenant Independent Scouts C.S.A. Illustrations from The Woman in Battle (1876). Courtesy of Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Apple and Ashes's final...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...authority. In this image the woman under arrest is doing all she can to wrestle free, including attempting to bite one of three policemen. Berger explains that this image was...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...grid is a photograph of a young, blonde-haired woman in sunglasses, head hanging out of a demolition derby car at the Crossville Raceway in Cumberland County. While this image may...