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Southern Register. 2018.3 (Fall 2018), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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Brown Bag Lunch And Lecture Series To Focus On 'Sports In The South', Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

First talk, examining protests in pro football, kicks off Sept. 5

Sept. 5 Brown Bag On "Protests In Football" Moved To Overby Room 249, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

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First talk, examining protests in pro football, kicks off Sept. 5. The Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture continues this fall with a focus on "Sports in the South." Due to construction, the Sept. 5 Brown Bag will take place in the Overby Center's Conference Room.

Study The South Announces Recipient Of Research Fellowship, Admin

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The Center for the Study of Southern Culture is pleased to announce that Bobby J. Smith II is the first recipient of the Study the SouthResearch Fellowship. The award provides the opportunity for funded research in the collections of the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the J. D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi.

Friendships Overcome Ignorance And Misconceptions: Teacher Candidates’ Exposure To A Foreign Culture In An Online Cross-National E-Pals Project, Jessica Essary, Tünde Szécsi

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

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Southern Register. 2018.2 (Spring/Summer 2018), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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Um Professor Receives Prestigious Humanities Without Walls Funding, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Caroline Wigginton and colleagues to study how indigenous art and activitism exert rights to homelands

Oxford Conference For The Book Celebrates Milestone Year, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

Event's 25th edition features readings, panel discussions and lectures

Oxford Conference For The Book Celebrates Milestone Year, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

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Oxford Conference for the Book Celebrates Milestone Year Event's 25th edition features readings, panel discussions and lectures OXFORD, Miss. For a quarter of a century, poets, novelists, journalists and scholars have gathered at the University of Mississippi to celebrate the written word. This year's milestone event again brings people together from far and wide to celebrate the 25th annual Oxford Conference for the Book.

Apply To Our Mfa Program In Documentary Expression, Admin

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Apply to Our MFA Program in Documentary Expression. The Center invites applications to our Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Expression program, which began in the fall of 2017. The MFA is a two-year (30-hour) graduate program that combines coursework in Southern Studies and interdisciplinary fields with advanced training in photography, film, and audio production.

Southern Register. 2018.1 (Winter 2018), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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A Body A Day: Constructing Deviance At The Mississippi State Asylum, Rachel Christine Childs

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Though the first graves of assumed-former asylum patients were discovered at the University of Mississippi Medical Center over 25 years ago, it wasn’t until 2017 that the estimated body count—which had been rising in reports for several years—rose above 7,000. Along with national attention, the growing burial site has prompted large-scale efforts by a consortium of scientists and scholars to determine how best to utilize and memorialize the remains, and yet to date, a complete cultural study that explores the sociopolitical context which these people represent has yet to be published. Consisting primarily of archival material and interviews, my research …

A Comparative Study Of American And French Fashion Conspicuous Consumption Habits On Instagram, Hannah J. Corson

Honors Theses

As social media has become an integral part of every day communications, consumers have begun to conspicuously consume through the Internet. One social media platform, Instagram, puts a central focus on media sharing and allows its users to post photos and videos to their profiles. This makes Instagram an ideal place for Internet users to put their belongings on display. However, a user's nationality and cultural upbringing could influence how one utilizes this platform to conspicuously consume. To determine if this were true, Instagram photos from American and French users were analyzed to find any potential discrepancies. Fashion items were …

Ici On Noie Les Algériens: France's Repression Of The 1961 Algerian Massacre, Brianna Starnes

Honors Theses

On the 17th of October 1961, 30,000 Muslims gathered throughout the streets of Paris in the peaceful protest of a curfew, which had been imposed in 1961 on all French Muslims from Algeria as an attempt to prevent any further FLN movement. Orders were given to arrest and suppress the protesters by any means. At the end of the night, bodies were found in the Seine. The victims were Algerian. The police announced that 14,000 men had been arrested, 200 men injured, and only 2 killed. Around 200 Algerian men were never heard from and corpses began appearing in the …

From Slave Ship To Supermax: Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, And The New Neo-Slave Novel, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

African American Studies News Archive

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Southern Register. 2017.3 (Fall 2017), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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Facebook Realness: Exploring Online Authenticity Through Drag Queens And The Infamous ‘Real Name Policy’, Ray Leblanc

Southern Anthropologist

Winner: 2015 Graduate Student Paper Competition

Early September 2014, Facebook profiles of popular drag queens on the West Coast were suspended for violating the rule of authenticity. Facebook profiles are designed to represent “real” people, and a battle began between corporate identity politics and the obnoxiously contradicting, subversive identities of drag performance. Drawing upon my own ethnographic work on drag performance and the social media of drag performers, I present this event as an opportunity to explore how drag queens bring their protest into cyberspace. Drag queens are disruptive cyborgs whose queer identity both on a digital and physical stage, …

Study The South Article "Revisiting Deliverance", Admin

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On June 19, Study the South published a new essay by Isabel Machado, a Brazilian historian currently living in Monterrey, Mexico, while writing her PhD dissertation for the University of Memphis.

Center Welcomes Incoming Graduate Classes, Admin

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This fall, southern studies launches its new master of fine arts in documentary expression program. The goal of this new program is to teach students who already possess considerable skill and experience in documentary techniques and interdisciplinary scholarship to produce documentary films, photography, or audio projects of high quality. The background for this idea is that the southern studies MA program has graduated numerous students who, as they complete the program, say they wish they had the time and attention to apply their newly learned skills to a polished project.

An Interview With John T Edge About The Potlikker Papers, Eating Democratically, And Foodways In Cultural Studies, Admin

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My fellow Southern Studies MA alum John T and I over many years have talked about how food, shelter, and clothing hold the keys to learning about the lives of southern people, many of whom embody the collision of necessity and creativity that is at the root of cultural studies. In this interview about his new book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, we discuss the tension between the essential and the complex, something he brilliantly struggles with as a founder of the academic discipline of foodways, and something I've thought about in my own past …

Southern Studies Center Launches M.F.A. In Documentary Expression, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

New UM program teaches the intersection of documentary skills and scholarly approaches

Center To Offer New Mfa Degree In Documentary Expression, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

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A new Master of Fine Arts degree in Documentary Expression begins this fall, and prospective students are encouraged to apply before the April 13 deadline. The new MFA, housed at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture, will be a two-year (30-hour) graduate program that combines three forms of training.

Beyond Isolation: The Mississippi Delta In A Global World, Stella D. Lindsey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the paradoxes and complexities of the Mississippi Delta through an international lens. The fundamental premise guiding the research is that goods, people, ideas, technology, and capital cross national borders; therefore, local transformations can only be fully understood within a global context. The study concentrates on the evolution of the reciprocal, complex relationship between the region and the international community, along with the local and global consequences of a series of transnational exchanges. With a primary focus on agribusinesses, the research challenges traditional visions of the Delta as an isolated and provincial region immune to modernization. Instead the …

Object Of Your Rejection: The Symbolic Annihilation And Recuperation Of Queer Identities In Country Music, Lauren Veline

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis addresses the double-marginalization of white queers living in Bible Belt communities by examining the symbolic annihilation of queer identities in country music. Bible Belt queers face unique obstacles and have different needs than queer communities elsewhere due to the cultural context of their communities. The urban-centric (“metronormative”) standards of queer identity and visibility presented in the media do not translate to their lived experiences. Moreover, while white, non-urban southerners possess a source of popular-media expression through country music, queer identities are noticeably absent. The invisibility of Bible Belt queers in the media perpetuates a cycle of hostility and …

College Students' Opinions On Parenting, Anne Overton Waller

Honors Theses

There are many potential negative effects of corporal punishment when used to discipline a child (Bell & Romano, 2012; Deater-Deckard, Landsford, Dodge, Pettit, & Bates, 2003; Straus, 2001) and tendencies to use corporal punishment are passed down through generations (Ben-Arieh & Haj-Yahia, 2008; Ember & Ember, 1994; Muller, 1996). The present study compared changes in beliefs about the appropriateness of corporal punishment in college students who received information on corporal punishment and parenting strategies in a parenting psychology class to students enrolled in non-parenting psychology classes. 116 students from the University of Mississippi participated in the present study, including 96 …

Teaching: Courses, University Of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group

Teaching and Outreach by the UMSRG

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Jimmy Thomas On Charles Reagan Wilson The Teacher, Admin

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Thank you so much to the many who have given so far to the Charles Reagan Wilson Graduate Student Support Fund. To date we've raised $18,094 from 129 donors. The campaign, which concludes on May 11, is beginning to wind down. Please consider a gift to honor a great professor, and please share the fund with friends. We have $6,906 to go, and with your help, we can get there.

Southern Register. 2016.2 (Spring/Summer 2016), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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Clothing And Fashion In Southern History Symposium Next Week, Admin

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Clothing and Fashion in Southern History February 22 - 23, 2016. The Center will host a symposium on Clothing and Fashion in Southern History on February 22-23. The symposium will convene scholars from the fields of history and cultural studies who will contribute essays to a forthcoming book on the subject.

Southern Register. 2016.1 (Winter 2016), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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