The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...part of the reason why. Nevertheless, McLemore's unique story still offers a rich opportunity to examine the complex dynamics of sexuality, gender, race, and class at the fringes of the...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...during the social, cultural, and economic upheavals unleashed by the Civil War that wrecked an old agrarian world and led to the rise of the New South's business ethos. Though...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...challenge to the access and preservation of library books on the blog as a part of our contribution to spreading awareness (and celebrating!) this week. On October 10, Harold Baer,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...idiom that celebrated the artists and their music. Virtually all of the concerts sold out and were videotaped for historic preservation. They now form part of the Center's archives. The...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...honor: Part historic preservation, part act of defiance, the spray-painted markings of Katrina rescue workers remain prominently displayed on many reoccupied New Orleans homes." New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 24, 2007....
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...melodies (Pen 217; Cobb 1989, 73-74; for more detail on this topic, see Horn). Ultimately, tracing the authorship of songs in The Sacred Harp is tricky business, since many of...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...by Emma Lirette. Sakakeeny charts how projects such as the construction of Interstate 10 through the central business corridor of the Tremé, and the demolition of multiple blocks to build...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...realization of race and class continues to be Sutpen's epiphany in Absalom, Absalom! after he is turned away, pointedly classified, by the well-dressed doorkeeper of a Tidewater residence and sent...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...or requiring, lessons on race, sex and gender,” Washington Post, Apr. 4, 2024; “America’s Censored Classrooms,” PEN America, Aug. 17, 2022, https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms/. It is hard to imagine a more divergent,...