Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...book provides another opportunity to reconsider the often vexed relationship between the United States and its ever-present southern other. About the Author Coleman Hutchison is associate professor of English at...
Writing Appalachia
...need to have a representative selection of Appalachian texts in one book because we teach Appalachian literature and have wished for such a book. The problem is not that the...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...historical perspective to southern Latinx populations, communities, and experiences. This includes two recent books by historians Cecilia Márquez—Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (2023)—and Sarah McNamara—Ybor City:...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...
Deep Ellum Blues
..."Blues History and Urban Life" is derived from their book. Govenar and Brakefield's book recreates the neighborhood in its heyday, when it was one of the major entertainment districts of...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...and the structure of the book. He begins each chapter with a discussion of those who experienced the most extreme forced relocation (interstate migrants) and ends with those he argues...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...the Midwest. Ten minutes later he has forgotten and again assumes I have been traveling through the South."5James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. (New York: The New...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...the firmness of her tone. "Their pain was unparalleled," she observed. "Their pain is still here. It burns in the soul of every person of African descent in the United...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Years a Slave. In closing, I would like to share a couple of minutes of the SOTA production, one that has been very faithful to my vision. The focus on...