Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...state maintains the right to control it. Tom Zarilli, Highway 319, north Florida, 2004. In Florida, memorials are routinely removed by the DOT during mowing and maintenance. Also in Florida...
Deep Ellum Blues
...I was bundled off to the Fair Park Bandshell for a weekend afternoon to watch the Grateful Dead or perhaps a band doing some Grateful Dead covers. (It's possible that...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of subordination in a way that was interpreted as 'getting fresh' with a white woman."2Reed, 12. "If bristling at Jim Crow's injustices were especially prominent in my consciousness," Reed writes,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
Every week Miz Nell Weaver had us memorize a Bible verse, one for each letter of the alphabet. This was in the fourth grade, Centreville, Alabama, 1956. One by one,...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...forty years to overturn the Brown decision. School Choice Programs in the United States, 2019. Map by Steve Suitts. Courtesy of the Southern Education Foundation. In the short run, the...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...collection, Florida Memory website, The State Archives of Florida. So influential were Grund's opinions of the US that one scholar referred to him as "The Jacksonian Tocqueville."68Holman Hamilton and James...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...and lieutenant governor; South Carolina's house speaker; Texas' attorney general and speaker; and Florida's attorney general and president of the state senate. The Florida legislature has become the first state...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...and political disenfranchisement. Photo negative of the first federal food stamps printed in Washington, DC, April 20, 1939. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Three factors...