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Category Archive: the South

A Year of Snow Days

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After the Lost Weekend of Spring 2020, American teachers, students, and parents look ahead to a period of prolonged and agonizing uncertainty.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 10, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, coronavirus, Education, the South

The Long, White History of “Law and Order” Rhetoric: From Nixon to the Original Klan

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“Law and order” has often been a flimsy cover for advancing the ruthless interests of white Americans.

Joseph Bagley June 23, 2020 conservatism, Donald Trump, more conservatism, race, the South, whiteness

A Dam in Slabtown: The Untold History of Environmental Struggles in the New South

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The New South economy was more than a story of extractive industry and environmental declension, argues historian Will Bryan.

William D. Bryan June 21, 2019 book excerpt, built environment, environment, excerpts, the South

The Master Class Is Just Not That Into You

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It’s been a slow news week here in Batavia, Ohio, the taint of America. Apparently the Mueller report (kind of, sort of) came out, and liberals everywhere achieved an unbelievable tantric orgasm nearly two years in the making.

Casey Baskin March 24, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of, feminism, gender, poetry, politics, the South, transgender

Infrastructures of Memory

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In the last several years, questions surrounding monuments that aim to memorialize Confederate-era actors and events have achieved […]

Brianne M Wesolowski December 4, 2018 Germany, memory, race, the South, World War II

Cornpone Cultural Politics in The Beverly Hillbillies

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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.

Guest September 25, 2018 book excerpt, excerpts, Popular culture, race, television, the South

Written on the Body: Sharp Objects’ Brilliant Portrayal of Trauma

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Sometimes, you have a dream whose metaphorical meaning is so thuddingly obvious it almost seems too much. The […]

Alex Sayf Cummings August 25, 2018 feminism, fiction, gender, television, the body, the South

Reconciling Race, Slavery, and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

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Following Dylann Roof’s use of a self-compiled archive of Charleston’s enslaved past to justify his June 2015 massacre […]

Guest May 28, 2018 African American history, book reviews, conservatism, memory, more conservatism, race, the South

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