Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...our own country, their hair light and falling to the waist, eyes blue" (16). When the gaze is reversed, the eyes of the strangers size up the underground visitors. "The...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...changes, along with newly revamped farms and numerous urban gardens, have contributed to a much-needed increase in the country's food supply since the early 1990s.11Lucy Martín, "Transforming the Cuban Countryside:...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
The Black Belt
...the term 'Black Belt,'" commented Booker T. Washington in 1901: So far as I can learn, the term was first used to designate a part of the country which was...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...chapter documents the rise in upcountry newspaper articles about geographical boundaries, the growing public and academic interest in atlases and maps, and an increased frequency in use of the term...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...William Faulkner. Among a host of contributions to any number of scholarly debates, Wise's crisp and clear articulation of Percy's views of love and sexuality will attract the attention of...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the summer of 1938. By taking to the road, Daniels was following the lead of a number of writers who set out to see the United States in the midst...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...and put this region's history, politics, culture, and contemporary situation in dialogue with that from around the country. In addition, I have recently been working on an edited book on...