Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...and finally the "Jordan." While the first two names are borrowed from classical mythology, the Old Testament "Jordan" invokes slavery.22Spirituals such as "Go Down Moses" invoked the Jordan River to...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...in the first half of twentieth century. Although best remembered for his memoir Lanterns on the Levee (1941), much of Percy's early poetry contains coded referents to Classic Greek tropes of man-man...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...blood carried "outrageously high" levels of the class of toxic chemicals known as PCBs, manufactured by Monsanto, and that the soil in her yard contained PCB levels "above what the...
Roadside Architecture
Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...
Burning bright, Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2009
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Hillsborough County The Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection http://digitalcollections.hcplc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15391coll1 The Burgert Brothers photography studio, originally located at 1310 1/2 7th Avenue in the heart of Ybor City's business district, operated from...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...public housing complex and later nominated to the National Register of Historic Places, Techwood Homes followed "a classic pattern of de facto demolition" (102). With the housing authority failing to...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...reinforced many of the lessons provided during my extracurricular activities. Classes and conversations with Professors Sonia Sanchez, Bettye Collier Thomas, Greg Carr, Valethia Watkins, and Mario Beatty, among others, strengthened...