In the last several years, questions surrounding monuments that aim to memorialize Confederate-era actors and…
Category: the South
Like The Andy Griffith Show, the near total absence of black characters on The Beverly Hillbillies made the show’s southernness more viable to its millions of viewers. It taught them that erasing was easier than confronting the weighty problem of white southern racism.
Sometimes, you have a dream whose metaphorical meaning is so thuddingly obvious it almost seems…
Following Dylann Roof’s use of a self-compiled archive of Charleston’s enslaved past to justify his…
To take a bibliography of southern history on its face, one could conclude that urban…
Quilting, for my family, is all but a lost art, passed down from the matriarch…
Neo-Confederates insist that the many statues of Robert E. Lee commemorate only southern “heritage,” and…
In the summer of 1977 a movie hit the multiplexes, twin cinemas, and dwindling drive-ins…
