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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. |
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.
Published: 14 December 2004
© 2004 Tara McPherson and
Southern
Spaces 
