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  • #SummerReading: “Closed Ranks”

    Closed Ranks: The Whitehurst Case in Post-Civil Rights Montgomery is available in both paperback and Kindle edition. From the publisher’s website: On a chilly December afternoon in 1975,…

  • Dirty Boots: Finding the ‘Clotilda’

    Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of…

  • Feeding the Family, Part Two

    Feeding the Family, Part Two

    Welcome to Eclectic offers long-form ruminations on the modern diverse South, education, sustainability, and social justice. [If you haven’t read “Feeding the Family, Part One,”…

  • Southern Movie 36: “Hot Summer in Barefoot County” (1974)

    Alongside the 1970s fascination with Southern culture that manifested itself in action films like Walking Tall and comedies like Smokey and the Bandit was also…