Junction City newspaper
Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002). His mediation rested on the primacy of French as a marker of cultural authenticity. "[T]he preservation of the language,"...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...like the real pioneers in the nineteenth century, who came as a kind of spillover of the mountain settlement to the east.32Harington, Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...culturally, tracing the city's trajectory from problematic European colony to Congo Square to today while offering thoughtful considerations of themes in music-making in the city over time. Settling on the...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...photo travelogue of Memphis shortly after I moved here in 2004. I felt drawn to their imperfect beauty. In a city of much poverty, racism, and crime, the sheer volume...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...when Congress provided that all slaveowners in the city would be compensated financially for the loss of their human property. Nonetheless, the Fugitive Slave Law was still, in principle, in...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...was honored with the Grand Prize of ArtFields in Lake City, South Carolina. From June 2–27, 2020, his work was on display in “Eros, C’est la Vie,” a show “celebrating...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...put the wonder and specificity of Black sonic art on the Florida map once and for all.6Kennedy's version of this recording expedition occasionally frames Hurston as the object of ethnographic...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996); James Taylor Carson, "Ethnogeography and the Native American Past," Ethnohistory 49 (Fall 2002): 765–784;...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...minority in India, in the mouths of political agitators, and on city walls, especially since the 1980s. "Those who wish to live in Hindustan will have to live like us...