Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...might enter into dialogue. There are many unresolved legacies to work through, including the status of the Creek Freedmen, who are denied basic rights of tribal citizenship. Creek scholar and...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...doctoral candidate in geography and is pursuing a certificate in American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation tracks the dialectical relationship between...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...The Emancipation Car. In dialect, Foster's song depicts enslaved people crying as they mourn the death of their former owner, rendering Simpson's ironic appropriation bitingly clever. "In my selection of...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
...art organizations, including Low Museum and Dashboard Co-op. About Susannah Darrow Susannah Darrow is the executive director and co-founder of BURNAWAY, a nonprofit organization that provides coverage and critical dialogue about the...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...clean the burning of the coal. Overlooked in the "Clean Coal" dialogue is the extraction of coal through mountaintop removal. This process is inherently filthy, and it can never be...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
Introduction This multimedia essay complements the 2007 Appalshop film Morristown: in the air and sun. Written by independent filmmaker Anne Lewis, the director of Morristown, and Fran Ansley, a Tennessee...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...antebellum South is clarified for all of these genres. The plots, characters, motives, and images of the three genres create the absorbing drama of an interlocking dialectic. To segregate these...