Cooter and Fast Eddie

by | May 23, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

It isn’t every day that one makes preparations to go and play music for some friends but instead ends up being portrayed in the national press and on the Internet as some sort of antediluvian racist who should not be seen in the company of someone aspiring to the...
Rethink Stereotypes of the South

Rethink Stereotypes of the South

by | Mar 6, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“Why do so many people think the South is so bad?” one of my international students asked me this winter on the first day of a class I taught about Southern history and culture. “I think it’s pretty great here.” Lacking a good reply, “me too” was all I could muster....