Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...drive-in ramps. Even though there were a number of other active theaters in southwestern Virginia — including the Moonlite, the Park Place, and the Hiland — and northeastern Tennessee, time...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...address how selected cultures live or struggle to survive within their unique natural environments, with emphasis on those environments that are already at risk or where great change has already...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
Review Water Graves investigates how contemporary writers and artists of the greater Caribbean (such as Jason deCaires Taylor) reinvest sites of racialized violence and environmental degradation—as so many manifestations of...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
Review In the aftermath of the Great Recession, cities and metropolitan regions were often portrayed as (and often were) spaces of economic turmoil and social upheaval. From December 2007 to...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...look at." Put another way, we only exist because someone looks at us. That is one of the greatest pleasures of writing dramas: feeling that one only offers a guide...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...some Latinos benefited from a “provisional whiteness” as they attended white schools, used white facilities, and enjoyed greater overall mobility in the Jim Crow era. She begins in Washington, DC,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...photojournalism, the proliferation of images documenting any single event tends to create not only greater variation in the images recorded, but also a greater number of photographs that are "more...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...into songs for children to sing, women who charged a favorite daughter, the one who wove stories in baskets, to carry their story in song and basket back to us,...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...state intervention and provide support for repressive policies and actions. Fevered Measures's greatest strength lies in its exploration of medical authority in a distinctive setting and relationship: contiguous nation-states sharing a...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...as well as the Netherlands Carillon next door that tolls the time in Big Ben fashion. But the headstones make the greatest impression as they sweep up, then down, and...