New Mind of South

New Mind of South

“The New Mind of the South” By Tracy Thompson. Simon & Schuster, 263 pps., $26. Whatever you think the South represents, it is Tracy Thompson’s contention that it’s morphing into something else. “The New Mind of the South” is her collection of essays on what a...
Racial Politics and Miss America

Racial Politics and Miss America

FOR many people, the most interesting thing about this month’s winner of the Miss America Pageant, Mallory Hagan, is that she lives in Brooklyn. It seemed so incongruous: a beauty queen from the epicenter of all things ironic and progressive. Newspapers have...
Southern Character

Southern Character

Lisa Tendrich Frank and Daniel Kilbride, eds. Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3690-8. The fifteen essays in this collection stem from a conference organized in 2005 in...