Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...Water Graves recognizes the album's imbrication with capitalist profit—casting Beyoncé as an embodiment of the capitalistic deity Mami Wata—it doesn't investigate how the economic "interests" underwriting her album inflect and/or...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...lists of singers who have died in the past year, and a directory of upcoming singings for the year. Still, the bulk of its contents are dedicated to documenting each...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...the entire community. Collectives experimented with different models for self-sufficiency to free themselves from the obligations of capitalist patriarchy. Very few women stayed in these collectives for long; manifestos often...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...father asked her about school. "He was not a talker," she says with a smile, "but he was a good listener." Virginia told him and her siblings what her teacher...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...on Native elegy, he has offered suggestions about ways some of his own cosmopolitan readings have included nationalist understandings. For three decades he has passionately advocated on behalf of Native...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...you ran in front of him. I like the list here. I like the order. Everybody communicates with everybody very strongly."29Tomás Alcántara [pseud.], interview by author, interpreted by Eva Villafañe,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and Jerry Falwell (228). The push for racial equality was the abomination in the temple.7A. G. Miller, "The Construction of a Black Fundamentalist Worldview: The Role of Bible Schools," in...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...the road with Dr. John (Mac Rebennack). He refers to his time with Dr. John as his "college education," watching and listening to a master at work. In 1972, after...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...critical scholarship, Matt Brim's Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University is at the top of my list right now. Brim reorients queer studies to an anti-elitist and anti-racist...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...thoughtful deliberation and intellectual honesty. Cherokee stickball game, Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies, Mars Hill University, November 8, 2011. Photograph by Hannah Furgiuele. Courtesy of the Liston B....