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.
Following Dylann Roof’s use of a self-compiled archive of Charleston’s enslaved past to justify his…
Quilting, for my family, is all but a lost art, passed down from the matriarch…
In the summer of 1977 a movie hit the multiplexes, twin cinemas, and dwindling drive-ins…
While the moonlight-and-magnolias myth of the Old South continues to persist, the region’s history actually…
I recently contributed an essay to a volume that’s forthcoming from UNC Press called The Bohemian…
Occasionally, a student asks a question so basic, about a presumption so fundamental to the…
Atlanta is a city once called Terminus—a name that rivals only Nitro, WV for unalloyed…
