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...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Shunning talking heads, Jafa recorded audio and visual components separately and then paired them together during post-production. Such an approach allows for "an extended freedom in both sound and image"...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...most pronounced dividing line between North and South, and between freedom and slavery. It was, in fact, the nation's only physical boundary separating free from slave states. Matthew Salafia constructs...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...[the city] haunted by yellow fever upon their arrival."77Ross, Die Auswanderers Handbuch, 404. Books by Gabriel Auguste van der Straten-Ponthoz and Traugott Braume shared Ross's concerns and warnings.78Gabriel Auguste van...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...local flavor, a bacchanalia fitting the surrounding party. Kelly Yandell, Elm Grove oysters, Galveston, Texas, 2011. Mad Island, Elm Grove, Todd’s Dump, Possum Pass, Bayou Cook, Pepper Grove, and Ladies...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...other songs of abandonment in her repertoire. Alberta Bradford and Becky Elzy Alberta Bradford and Becky Elzy, Avery Island, Louisiana, ca. 1933. Photo courtesy of E. A. McIlhenny Enterprises, Inc....
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...my people. The fight for freedom is not over.”23Ibid. At the local level, the extent to which the IWFR spurred new alignments between the causes of immigrant rights and anti-racist...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...16, 1939, Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1, Official File 1650, Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, New York (hereafter FDR); Colonel B.M. Casteel to Governor...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...