The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...Holy Cross area of the Lower Ninth Ward, and their coding system is similar to that used by the US&R teams. The mysterious TFW team, still not officially identified, used...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Virginia's institutions based on a discrete set of sources. Segrest's Administrations of Lunacy is a history of Georgia writ large, a weaving of scattered and disparate sources from official archives...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...light of day, because although it won a national award for its publication, it told about my discovery of sexuality at the Lenin school, which the editorial officials did not...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...fascinating."23Barry Jean Ancelet, "Lomax in Louisiana: Trials and Triumphs," Folklife in Louisiana: Louisiana's Living Traditions website, http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/LFMlomax.html. This article is based on the Phillips Barry Memorial Lecture Ancelet delivered at the...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...stories, if we don't try to create dialogue, people remain voiceless and in the shadows. The immigration debate in Jupiter from Brother Towns, 2010. Then the opposite side of the...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...locating their poems in specific historical and social sites. There is, I argue, a red thread of American poetry that has consistently and productively represented race as a spatial rather...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and the Pop Art Movement to frame his discussion of Buddy Holly as both songster and producer. The studio meanwhile comes to represent the site where "the echo effect of...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...racial equality with heritage entrepreneurship, Alabama tourism officials are acknowledging the state’s rich concentration of civil rights sites. The marking of physical space in Scottsboro makes memories tangible. Donations of...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...equality on this site of white terror," Goldstein points to the slave market's role in the twentieth century as an "all-purpose protest site." Efforts by "heritage tourism" advocates to elide...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...outside their immediate context to form a new composite body based on a disorganized reorganization. Allewaert's argument begins even before her words begin with the book's cover image: the face...