Authorship in Africana Studies
...indulgent, generous even, in their embrace of someone at least proposing opera with a difference. In addition to historicizing Imoinda as art project, I cannot escape in the course of...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
The Great South From 1873–74, towards the end of Reconstruction, journalist Edward King travelled the former Confederacy attempting to unpack the meaning of "the Great South" (1875) for largely northern...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...and the arrival of German immigrants becomes apparent. Why did Germans single out yellow fever among prevalent diseases? After all, as then American diplomat and naturalist David Bailie Warden wrote...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...ancestry. Because I'm from East Harlem, a US citizen, and was perceived as having assimilated to mainstream American culture, my closest Hispanic informants often referred to me as a Nuyorican...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Victorian filled with Pekingese and antiques" where Hudson's grandmother lived. His photographs adorned the walls of Hudson's childhood home. In the 1970s, as a student journalist and photographer, Hudson began...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...on Native elegy, he has offered suggestions about ways some of his own cosmopolitan readings have included nationalist understandings. For three decades he has passionately advocated on behalf of Native...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...hundred largest commuter zones in the study (worst here meaning the least likely for children born to low-income families to ever rise out of poverty), was used by The New...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...line between white and Black property: white residents on the west side and Black residents on the east side. Ignoring Jim Crow, Drew's family and other Black families crossed the...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...southern identity as much as I have hoped for at least a temporary ban on men in cowboy hats recording songs about the joys of small town southern life. This...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...women's experiences in the parole system, which the Georgia General Assembly established in 1908. Private companies and individuals could conscript recently paroled African Americans to work for at least one...