Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...of a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps's 1939 novel Drums at Dusk and of the collection of essays Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the US South....
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...analysis to encompass Ybor City as a node within a borderlands where the Caribbean and US South meet and shape each other. These books model balancing of the multitude of...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...follow Hurston's musical cartography of folk songs, work chants, and blues and children's songs gathered up in the American South and the Caribbean diaspora, from the Bahamian "Crow Dance" to...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...A guest book contains testimonies of the latest Virginians: “My family is from the southernmost island of the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago,” “My family came from the Mayflower from England,”...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean in its early formulation. Highly recommended for ecocritical scholars. Finally, because drama does not get its readerly due and most of...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...as literature, folklore, anthropology, and history. "The South" is defined as the region south of the Mason Dixon Line, including the Caribbean and Latin America. Regular features include reviews of...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...social, cultural, and economic changes that created the atmosphere of "beachy tropicality and Caribbean escapism" that characterize Bourbon Street's continuous parade in the twenty-first century (228). In between, he traces...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...just to read Evan's work but also to have extensive conversations with her as she was developing her thesis. often in novels set in the United States or the Caribbean,...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
Review There's a gripping scene in Arthur Jafa's award-winning film, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, in which he pairs the image of a small group of African American boys acrobatically...
Social Justice Environmentalism
Essay In a 2017 essay, National Museum of African American History and Culture director Lonnie Bunch noted that, like much of black history, environmental activism by people of color is...