Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...us that the best we can do in most cases is piece together bits of information about the lives of others. Given this incomplete knowledge, we're better off not passing...
Cajun South Louisiana
...so Acadians who came from Nova Scotia to the lower Mississippi River Valley between 1765 and 1803 adapted to the new environment. People who once lived on cod and herring...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...they died. Down in the Delta, the alluvial floodplain between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers in northwest Mississippi, perennially listed as the poorest and most unhealthy region in the country,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...and that southern metal and cotton products would find commercial opportunities in Far Eastern markets.4William H. Taft, "The Winning of the South," Political Issues and Outlooks: Speeches Delivered Between August,...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...first book contributes immensely to US southern, economic, gender, and political history. Examining the experiences of black female convicts in Georgia between emancipation and the 1920s, No Mercy Here enriches...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...connections between mob violence and "legal" lynching run deeper than this slim volume conveys. While the antipathy between the NAACP and ILD infused both the Scottsboro and Peterson campaigns, the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...between tradition and modernity, music and society. Sweet Air stands at the crossroads of several historiographical paths, including recent approaches in cultural studies and vernacular music history.1Comentale uses Josh Kun's...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Meeting typically included a Sacred Harp sing on Saturday evening. This network of churches, then, disseminated and maintained the Crawfordite style of hymnody and fostered the symbiotic relationship between the...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...versatility blurred the boundaries between formal and informal law, between legal experts and ordinary litigants, between courts, the governor's office, and hamlets tucked away in forest thickets in the interior....
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...she realized she had never thanked him. Celestine Sibley, "In the Rain by a Mississippi Truck Stop," Atlanta Constitution, April 9, 1968. Letters between Sibley and her New York editor, Larry...