Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...place the dentils, those little square things that are cast and placed in the mold. It all has to be in tune. When you run your arch, you gotta put...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...that the people who sold him the tickets were scammers. The boat was over-crowded and in a dangerously poor condition. The deck began filling with Mekong water. Everyone screamed in...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...our agony and suffering to them? Have they not, just as often, seen their best horses die? They don't weep for them, for they're rich, and tomorrow they'll buy others.....
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...