Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...bestseller for several weeks and received warm reviews from northerners and southerners, blacks and whites.3Jonathan Daniels, A Southerner Discovers the South (New York: Macmillan, 1938). All references are to this edition. Publishers Weekly listed A...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...2012), 5. On the significance of the term "worldsense" to studies of African cultures, see Oyeronke Oyewumi, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (Minneapolis:...
Whiskey and Geography
...Newfound Sovereignty (New York: Scribner, 2006), 66. With this kind of consumption pattern among the English, they had little room to ridicule people of the western mountains as habitual drunks....
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...chapters. Pulitano argues that certain writers more effectively subvert western authority by fusing Native and western traditions, forcing readers to reconsider Eurocentric hegemony. In contradistinction to this group, she analyzes...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...glumly as he read them a long list of criticisms and demands that included a call for the board's mass resignation in protest of the court order. Kasper also announced...
"Aint that Something?"
...Fiction Since 1878: "Appalachia in the national geographic imaginary . . . has largely remained an essentialist vision of the region—white, rural, poor or working-class mountain people with highly specific...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...an intruder, and to set up a Louisiana only understood from the inside. He is also a mystical nihilist whose popularity gave rise to fans hunting down and interpreting his...
Editors
...Hall 226 Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey is Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. In 2012, she was named the nineteenth US...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...intimacy in which viewers are invited to sit alongside. It is an image used in the film's promotion: Mildred sits in Richard's lap, holding his head close to her chest....
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Polikoff Proposal," Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 1, no. 1 (Summer 2006), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v1/n1/4/. Yet, as Goetz poignantly maintains, de-concentrating poverty is not the same as altering the economic...