LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Xavier Blk and Will Edmond, two of Atlanta's hottest DJs and party promoters, discussed their business philosophy and the "creative" benefits of living as a collective. Finally, hometown R&B singer, Donnie,...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...class discrepancies within the US and realized how little economic and political power Appalachia had, I saw the relationship between Appalachia and exploited non-Western countries. I realized how Appalachia can be...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...strongest examples of the contested relationship between nations expressed medically. El Paso Anglo and Mexican American elites depended on the exploitation of Mexican labor and expected the neighboring city of...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...following the jazz giant's death in Brooklyn earlier that year. High-culture mandarins weren't bashful about voicing displeasure with the name change, insisting there were better places to celebrate “jungle music”...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...agency," inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's theory of the minor, stemming from human, parahuman,1"Parahuman" indicates the zone of connection between human animal, other animals, and the environment. animal,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...Lillard), fifty years later. "I heard they had better books at Fehr, and it was a lot closer than Elliott, and when they said Linda could go there, I made...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...soon see Miss Amelia in the Better Land." In the Oxford cemetery, the Kitty marker serves a comparable function, mediating white transitions between the realms of life and the afterlife....
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...to look after Mrs. Martin and her minor children. Enslaved people at Milberry Place in southwestern Barnwell County could be sold off at Mrs. Martin's discretion. At this point, we...