Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...electric chair. In Murder on Shades Mountain, Melanie S. Morrison recovers the Peterson case from the shadow of Scottsboro—arguably the most significant and certainly the most chronicled miscarriage of justice...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...job," Looking at Appalachia's use of multiple, competing frames undermines any attempt to portray a region in its entirety, or to pin this floating signifier within a fixed, defined border....
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...as "an archive that [she] can hold." Significance of the Occasion: A Letter and Comments from Charles Henry Rowell, Editor of Callaloo Dear Colleagues and Friends, Welcome to the 2014...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...bounce, in particular, is showing signs of a full-blown revival.11Holly Hobbs and Alison Fensterstock, "New Orleans Hiphop and Bounce Storytelling, Preservation, and Place in Post-Katrina" (paper presented at the Music...
Cajun South Louisiana
...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...of these colorful hand-painted signs speaks of persistent creativity and the spirit of small business. The sheer volume of these signs in the city affirms the popularity of this mode...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...perceived as problem tenants. And the vision of public housing (at least by some housing reformers) as an affordable option for the worthy poor was replaced by caustic images of...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...signifying moments aren't significant enough because of Mason Jr.'s characterization. She writes: He's a prototypical good-but-aimless kid. We see his foibles—he's a bit surly and a tad whiny, he smokes...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...to ascertain whether she is inside or outside of the prison, an ambiguity that signaled her fitness for freedom" (22). Fusing the narratives of Gault and Cobb, Haley addresses the...