Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...impetus as an explicitly abolitionist form, like Stowe's novel (indeed the narratives were an important source for her book's rendering of slave life). The fugitive or freed slaves, writing first-hand...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...as evidenced by the exceptionally devastating and inequitable toll that COVID-19 has exacted, much of which was averted or more proficiently mitigated by other countries, including nations in the Global...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...have been leading an initiative to build a larger memorial at the Freedom Riders site. But official reluctance to honor the Freedom Riders has often blocked action. In denying Georgia...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...other Uranian writers. For an overview of Percy's life and work, see John Howard, "'Our Country'—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy," Southern Spaces, April 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/our-country-benjamin-e-wises-william-alexander-percy. Yet, the pages of homophile...
Country Music Scholar
...at Tulane University. His books include Country Music, U.S.A.; Southern Music/American Music; Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music; and Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...developments that led to federal marijuana legislation in 1937.4For prominent examples, see Howard Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (New York: Free Press, 1963); Alfred Ray Lindesmith, The...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...with his meticulous and elegantly written Rough Country. First, in 2015, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill allowing Texas residents to openly carry handguns in public spaces...
Palomares Bajo
...successive US administrations, who from 1953 built and managed "joint" military installations across the country. The Morón base, near Seville, sent air tankers to refuel these planes returning to Goldsboro...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Just as the Lord had freed Moses and the Israelites from Egyptian tyranny, so they would find their freedom now. "We also must make an exodus," he exclaimed. "It's history...