"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...that some sought escape via "life in a big city . . . Someplace like San Francisco. Or New York. Or New Orleans."13Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, 10. However,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
..."Politicians to Eat 'Possum. The Supper at Newnan to Be a Unique Affair," The Morning News News (Savannah, GA), Dec. 28, 1897, 2, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063034/1897-12-28/ed-1/seq-2/. Located about forty miles southwest of...
Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina
Thursday, September 26, 2024 In Marshall talking with Joel and Josh. Very real concerns about the river, which is at ten feet, fierce, and rapidly rising. The island is already...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...because it was unusual to me. I'd never seen any place like it in Florida. In 2004 I started a new photographic project called Primitive Florida. I felt that I...
Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey
...warned. Back in 1974, when Amberg was a newcomer to the Appalachian mountains and drove past the structure often, its “fundamentalist and apocalyptic tone” made him “wonder if [he’d] chosen...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...AIDS Victims,” THV 11, October 26, 2023, https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-files-cemetery-aids-restoration/91-39e9dad1-7ece-4244-b854-4e1d2091c5bc. A June 2024 YouTube video podcast, RUTHLESS: The Real Story Behind the ‘Cemetery Angel of Arkansas’ alleges to uncover the “scam” perpetrated...
Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City
...for 20 years,” New Orleans Tribune, January 24, 2018. Carol Bebelle and Douglas Redd. Undated photo courtesy of Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Born in New Orleans and raised in Baton...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...new forms. We wanted to advance scholarship that used digital media as essential components. We also wanted to differentiate the purpose of this new publication from "Southern Studies" in general,...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...(New York: Routledge, 1993): 467–476. Proximity to specifically queer-centered businesses also enabled many cruising areas, albeit in flexible ways. The policed street scene outside a new bar described by the...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London and New...