With, in, and Beyond: Curriculum Studies of Southern Place Outside the Boundaries of Region

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Working though understandings of social-psychoanalysis, this panel continues a discussion of Southern place and identity with an emphasis on pop culture representations. Beginning with an understanding that popular culture both reflects and co-constitutes Southern place and identity, presenters in this panel engage, discuss, and perform pop culture within and beyond the South with special emphasis on the “Southernization” of the U.S. and beyond in popular culture forums. Specifically presenters engage topics as varied as representations of the South in visual media and movies, rock-and-roll music, Presidential elections, the demise of Paula Deen, and other “texts” with, in, and beyond the South. Discussing, engaging, and performing pop cultural representations, Southern popular culture provides new insights into a curriculum of place and identity.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Theodorea Regina Berry, The University of Texas - San Antonio

Papers

• Historical Notes on the Proliferation of Southern Place as Organized in a Synoptic Rendering of Barry Goldwater’s Populist Political Theorizing - James C. Jupp, Georgia Southern University

• Finding My Place in/Against a Peculiar Institution - Nichole A. Guillory, Kennesaw State University

• That’s Alright Mama: How Southern Blacks Invented Rock and Roll - Robert Lewis Lake, Georgia Southern University

• “It’s Currere, Y’all”: Paula Deen, Autobiography, and the Myth of a Postracial Society in America - Reta Ugena Whitlock, Kennesaw State University

• Django Unchained and Paula Deen: 21st-Century Representations of Slavery and the Culture of the Plantation - William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

Discussant

• Shirley R. Steinberg, University of Calgary