Palomares Bajo
...Duchess"—she identified as socialist, not communist—was jailed by the Franco regime for her efforts. Her memoir and the edited volume in which much of it is published should be considered...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...traveled this distance to other sings. The two 1950s FFF performances represented both a geographic and a cultural leap. Sacred Harp singers describe theirs as singer's music, not listener's music,...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...crawl. In 1878 the Virginia legislature chartered the Peninsula Railroad Company to build a line along the Eastern Shore, but four years later local promoters were still waiting for the...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...History of Folklife Research in Louisiana." affording the genre "authenticity and legitimacy."19As quoted in Ibid. The experience politicized Dewey Balfa, who came home a devout cultural nationalist. In 1974 Balfa...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...sold and that she is running away to save her child" from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Read together, the "loyalist" plantation romance and the "fugitive" slave narrative speak to one another...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...across multiple countries and time zones. Some collaborating editors work in low-tech environments, sharing lists as Microsoft Word documents. Others have found online platforms that modify PDFs and provide advanced...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...through discourses around immigration and work, in recent decades relying upon tropes of the "immigrant work ethic," racially-coded language about "lazy" workers, and the socio-economic category of "labor shortages." We...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...and policies and ordinary people's responses, experiences, and understandings of health and illness. Her current project examines the various protests against Agent Orange herbicides during and after the Vietnam War....