About the Author

James A. Crank, associate professor of American literature at the University of Alabama, has received fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation and the National Humanities Center. He is the author of several books, including Understanding Randall Kenan.

Reviews

A unique and multilayered analysis of what and who makes the South legible in its modern iterations, The Dirty South offers some new language and approaches to push back against the lazy assertions of the region being a singularly white, conservative, and monolithic experience. . . . It's a helluva read." - Regina N. Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South