The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Places Around the Lower Chattahoochee Valley (Eufala, AL: Historic Chattahoochee Commission, 2000), 1. Fussell's definition is extremely helpful, but there are numerous blues artists that George Mitchell recorded who were...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Marcel Duchamp's art, and fan testimonials—to generate a narrative that squarely places vernacular American music in modernist discourses. Throughout Sweet Air, Comentale defines the experience of consuming recorded vernacular music...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...cottage garden aesthetics and classical English design with a strong reliance on native plants. By the 1990s he'd become internationally renowned, forming friendships with such English gardening notables as Rosemary...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...in both form and content. Individual pictures declare "I'm Appalachian too," by calling attention to the frames that select these images. As William Schumann has noted in "Place and Place-Making...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Places are, in short, "open and porous," "mental territories" constructed through a multiplicity of relations with "other" places.3Massey, Space, Place, and Gender, 5; Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray,...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...places himself and his companions in the unexamined position of vulnerable white settlers: "The silence of eternal solitude reigned over all; the deep waters flowed sluggishly beneath our bateau, and...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...fugitives from plantation slavery. Others had purchased their freedom in cash or through some form of service-based payments. In places like Santiago, the far eastern province of the Spanish colony...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...power in the workplace, but, depending on UMWA leaders' priorities, unionism at times paradoxically undermined miners' capacity to make that workplace healthy and safe. In the years after World War...