Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...comfortable "back east" and in such august company. To Hardwig's mind, this image elegantly captures the "enormous gulf between the communities depicted in Murfree's dialect stories about the Tennessee mountains...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...in the 1970s" (2). Mellard examines how progressive country dialogued with an ideology that combined nostalgia for an imperial Texas with progressive political ideals. Referred to as "redneck rock" in...
The Black Belt
...dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the Black Belt as I felt and saw them.” New York, New York. Portrait of Richard Wright, poet, May 1943. Photograph by Gordon...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...end."3James E. Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993), 21. In this sense, memorials might be ongoing dialogues that could...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
Introduction This here tale begins in the summer of that year, whatever year it was . . . The year don't matter. The national situation don't even matter, because even...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...piece that includes music, slides, and an oral history dialogue, to the Oral History Association 2000 Conference and the 2001 Appalachian Studies Conference. The project is also presented to public libraries,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
Introduction Buenaventura Lakes, Florida. Data from the 2010 Census, Hispanic population according to county. Map courtesy of Southern Spaces. One of the largest Puerto Rican enclaves in Greater Orlando, Buenaventura...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Catholic, Protestant, or Vodou initiate without a sustained discussion of persons inhabiting multiple religious identities—Rey and Stepick miss opportunities to engage Africana-centered theories that represent dialogical relationships between African and...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
"What the Same Body Means in Different Places" Section one of "Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism." See the full transcipt of this video below. I am at work...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...would be enriched by a dialogue with Martinican essayist Suzanne Césaire who, like her, defines the entanglement of plant life and the workers of the land as a productive agency...