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...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...charged by the carload. There is no playground in this austere space. Strips of parched grass run between gray gravel driveways. Heavily rusted speaker poles tilt awkwardly over mowed grass....
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...white working class—coded as male industrial workers. For months before and after the 2016 election, journalists reported on various Trump Countries, as they were dubbed—Appalachian communities supposedly serving as ground...
Race
...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine, prepared by curator Carol Thompson and published by the High Museum of Art in partnership with DelMonico Books and Prestel, presents the show’s thirty-seven works,...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...and their global connections. We encourage submissions that combine innovative scholarship and analysis with ideas for digital media elements such as images, maps, audio, or video. Jason Francisco, Nature preserve,...
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
...the "Readymade Elvis," "Dirty Elvis," "Mother Elvis," and "Third Elvis." Readymade Elvis is Comentale's most explicit comparison of Duchamp and Presley, "two brilliant artists of everyday life" (166–167). The author...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...elder Lee at age 85. As Johnny Lee, Silas's nephew and David's father, remarked that day, "A lot has changed since 1958 …[What has not changed are] this book (the...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Monica (Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 2004). The Hotel Ponce de Leon, the Hotel Alcazar, and the Hotel Cordova line King Street, just steps from the Plaza de la Constitución (Figures 41–43).30The...