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Graduate Theses in Southern Studies

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Disciplining The Body: Societal Controls Of Gender, Race And Sexuality, Michelle Renae Bright

Six Days of Twenty-Four Hours: the Scopes Trial, Antievolutionism, and the Last Crusade of William Jennings Bryan, Kari Lynn Edwards

Mississippi Breakdown: a New Look at the Mississippi Old Time Fiddle Music Traditions, Joseph Jamison Hollister

C.C. Bryant: a Race Man Is What They Called Him, Judith E. Barlow Roberts

Y'all eat: Foodways, performative regional identity, and the South in the twenty-first century, Kirsten Schofield

Language as Microaggression: the New Lexicon of American Racism, Juan Thurmond

Place, Race, and Religion in the Local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community and Movement of Memphis, Tennessee, Amy Catherine Ulmer

Only Nixon Could Go to China: L. Q. C. Lamar and the Politics of Reconciliation, Richard Brian Wilson

A Historical Analysis of Living Blues Magazine, Melanie Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Starved: Food Deserts in the Mississippi Delta, Novelette L. Brown

Well I'll Be: Positive Images Of Southern Women As Response To Feminism From 1980-2000, Jennifer Holman Gunter

Frontier Identity in Cultural Events in Holmes County, Florida, Tyler Dawson Keith

Minds in Place: Thornwell, Palmer, Dabney, and Breckinridge in Fast Day Sermons: Or, The Pulpit on the State of the Country (1861), Xaris A. Martínez

The Blues Is Alright: Blues Music as a Root for Cultural Tourism and Public History, Katherine Duvall Osteen

A Place of Happy Retreat: Benefiting Locals and Visitors Through Sustainable Tourism Practices at Beale Street, Graceland and the National Civil Rights Museum, Cathryn Stout

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Beyond the sunset : race and ethnicity in Cullman County, Alabama, Miles Laseter

The Crescent and the Cross: Islamic Influence in Southern Culture, Jesse Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Having made cents of sense of place : literature, tourism, and the commodified myth of New Orleans, Hicks Wogan

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

“Part of My Internal Landscape”: Religious Ideology as a Construction of Place in Randall Kenan’s Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and Crystal Wilkinson’s Water Street, Frances Abbott

“Daddy, Tell Me Another Story:” The Drive-By Truckers, Southern History, and Popular Culture, Ellie Campbell

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

Shades of white : party politics in Mississippi, 1870-1896, William Bland Whitley

Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995

Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta, 1938-1950, Karen Marie Glynn

A way out of no way : African-American culture and empowerment at the Ichauway Plantation baseball diamond and store, Charles McCutchon Yarborough