Re-imagining the Red States:
New Directions for Southern Studies
New Directions for Southern Studies
Tara McPherson, University of Southern California
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On November 15, 2004, Tara McPherson presented "Re-imagining the Red States"
at Emory University. Prof. McPherson discusses how a variety of maps, blogs, e-mails, and
weblinks represent the U. S. South since the November 2004 election. "The binary logic of
red versus blue does not serve us well if we truly aim to imagine a more just nation," she
concludes. In the second half of her illustrated talk, Prof. McPherson considers Katherine
DuPre Lumpkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt as alternative models for southern identity who help to
destabilize red-state/blue-state thinking. |
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Part 1a (6:24 min.)
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Sifting through representations of the
South on the Internet since the November 2 elections. |
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Part 1b (7:29 min.)
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“What are we to make of the fact that blue-state
progressives . . . were buying in to the same maps that neoconservatives
had been circulating for years?” |
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Part 2 (15:31 min.)
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Seeing hidden “Souths.” Reclaiming the
activist histories of white southerners. The examples of Katherine
DuPre Lumpkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt. |
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Part 3 (6:07 min.)
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Southern Studies is getting a much-needed infusion
from feminism, from American Studies, from scholars of race and
ethnicity, and from other ways of thinking about regions and the
world. |
About the Speaker:
Tara
McPherson is Associate Professor of critical studies and gender studies
at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.
She is the author of Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia
in the Imagined South (Duke University Press, 2003). She is co-editor
(with Henry Jenkins and Jane Shattuc) of Hop on Pop: The Politics
and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2003). Among
her current projects is an anthology on new technology, a book manuscript
on racial epistemologies in the electronic age, and the launching of an
internet journal through the Institute
for Multimedia Literacy.
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