Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Viranjini Munasinghe describes the plight of marginalized East Indians in the colonially derived West Indies Creole communities.29Viranjini Munasinghe, "Theorizing World Culture through the New World: East Indians and Creolization," American...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Montgomery to Birmingham; from Birmingham to Atlanta; from Atlanta down the west coast of Florida to Key West and up the east coast of Florida to Savannah and then home...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...through which the state exerted itself. Agrarian studies scholar James C. Scott, in The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009), analyzes the political...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...record” and the need for “better geographic representation” of queer histories in southern spaces.66Fosl and Vivian, “Investigating Kentucky’s LBGTQ Heritage,” 221–222. In 2022, Ruth donated her archival materials to the...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...never seen any place like this before. I had grown up in the Clearwater–Tampa Bay area, which was then probably three hours or more down the road. There are better...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...a global market. Individual users are often seen as driving the drug trade, but they're not, or at least not by themselves — any more than I'm driving the bottled...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...would follow religiously till their last breath. While the fear of miscegenation between black and white had remained the driving force behind Helper's abolitionist rhetoric, the union between Asian and...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...grants to Anglo-American settlers, who primarily took up residence in lands northeast of San Antonio. These Anglo settlers, who identified as Texians, and Hispanic settlers, who identified as Tejanos, fought...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...an "ideological struggle over the meaning of citizenship and race that played out between the founding of the nation and the rise of the Confederacy" (3). Top, General Oglethorpe Statue in...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...social, cultural, and economic changes that created the atmosphere of "beachy tropicality and Caribbean escapism" that characterize Bourbon Street's continuous parade in the twenty-first century (228). In between, he traces...