Watching “State of Alabama v Brittany Smith” on Netflix

In the News, Fall 2022

“In The News” contains stories, articles, or reviews that reference or relate…

Reading Albert Murray’s “The Omni-Americans” (1970)

from Groundwork, the editor’s blog

This is the only book on the editor’s reading list that isn’t about the South specifically. However, it is about beliefs, myths, and narratives that surround…

Watching “The Downing of a Flag” on PBS

The two-part documentary studies the history of the…

Reading Hal Crowther’s “Cathedrals of Kudzu” (2000)

Watching “Sapelo” from America ReFramed on PBS

from the editor’s blog, Groundwork, on “Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore”

Browsing PBS’s app on Roku, I came across “ Sapelo haphazardly, and within a short time…

In the News, Summer 2022

“In The News” is published quarterly and provides a sampling of stories, articles, or reviews that relate to beliefs, myths, and…

School Tales Propel a Career Change

Republished from Nobody’s Home, an essay by Betty Jamerson Reed

One commonly held narrative says that the integration of Southern schools occurred in the 1960s. However, the changes at that time were…

Reading John Shelton Reed’s “One South” (1982)

This collection of essays centers on “regional sociology” and “folk geography,” asking in its own way: what does it mean to be Southern?

Watching “Hillbilly” (2019)

The 2019 documentary challenges common narratives about Appalachian people. The film was made by Kentucky native Ashley York, who has since left the state and moved to Los Angeles after finishing college. The incitement, in this case, to return came during the 2016 election…