Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...research on Latinx migration, settlement, and everyday experiences.1Raymond Mohl, “Globalization, Latinization, and the Nuevo New South,” Journal of American Ethnic History 22, no. 4 (2003): 31–66. While scholarly writing such...
Gold Records in Deep Space
The more that traces of American roots music are turned into prized relics, the more lifeless the music becomes. Only by acknowledging roots music's ephemeral and fragile qualities do its...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...definitive account of these protests.1Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Pivotal Moments in American History. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Ninety miles southwest of...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...in any number of new temporal and spatial configurations" (54–55). While this observation is true of any map—as is the relationship between cartographic representation and a given culture's deepest ambitions...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...flyer at the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention advertising "American shape-note singing," Winnersh, United Kingdom, 2012. In November, I remarked that "many new singers," such as those in Europe,...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School, accessed February 10, 2014, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/101. An author might choose this license if she wants to retain the exclusive right to make such modifications....
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...