"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...and New Orleans Rap (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007); Daron Crawford and Pernell Russell, Beyond the Bricks, (New Orleans: Neighborhood Story Project, 2009); Miller, Bounce; and Sakakeeny, Roll With...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...teaching about farming, I got an M. A. in agricultural education. After that I became a full-time rural organizer, working with farmers all over the Carolinas. Later I started an...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...and they go in opposite directions. One has only become clear to me in the last couple of years. Digital humanities allows us to think about and engage with large...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...systems throughout the country would be affected by the historic ruling. It could be persuasively argued that Brown was the most important legal principle to be shaped by the Supreme...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...her rural community outside of Claxton, Georgia, was causing grave harm, and that she and her neighbors had a right to be spared its effects. She described her own sensitivity...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...rubes, though the images were decidedly the product of a modern publicity campaign. Singers often evoked a nostalgic, rural, and bucolic South, though they might be, as Jimmie Rodgers proclaimed...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...States, but its location, Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) in the West Indies, is an important site of slavery and revolution in the African diaspora where plantation slaves experienced barbarous conditions eliciting...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...has received critical acclaim in part for its temporal and global scope—ancient Greece, England, Russia and Uganda receive specific attention—but also for his sensitivity both to disability and Latinx experience,...
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
Poplar tree, Buckner Gap, NC, 1994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Remains of the house rumored to have been the site of an illegal liquor distilling operation, near Buckner Gap,...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...and private spheres and the development of queer subcultures Urban/rural and digital: gentrification, shifts in LGBTQ+ enclaves, and the importance of digital apps/dating in queer space and practice Lesbian, Transgender,...