From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011); Mark Hulsether, Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). I explore the...
Good-Bye to All That?
...haven't read political coverage in a newspaper, and I've tuned out television, magazine, and internet post-mortems. Nor, after decades as a political news junkie, have I any desire to follow...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (New York: Routledge, 2007). In 2013, the University of Virginia Press published The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration (Charlottesville:...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Indian (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2006), 189. Battle of Talladega, 1855. Engraving by unknown creator. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Art and Picture Collection Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-f6d5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. In current...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...History of Environmental Racism in the United States (New York: New York University Press, 2015); Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...pastoral past while providing a new generation of white southerners with moral instructions to navigate a new modernizing world. The lyrics of many gospel songs Kieffer wrote evoke scenes of...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (New York, The New Press, 2020). deals with the first hundred years of Georgia's Central State Hospital in...