Deep Ellum Blues
...Ellum Area This hyper-American model of speculative growth has left little room for the old, at least until very recently. For such a young city, the new becomes the old,...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...modalities and transdisciplinary vocabularies for comparing creative works across the broader Caribbean. About the Author Aaron Witcher is a PhD Candidate in French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...generation of academics have named it the southern imaginary—runs deep in American culture. We know that it defines, ensnares, and empowers whites and blacks. We know it has tremendous flexibility...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...was African American. The stacked rows of small black boxes that support the platform suggest the unacknowledged role of African Americans in upholding this culture and sustaining its economic structure....
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...African American art, see Rachel Farebrother's The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (London: Ashgate, 2009). Toomer claimed that he was a "new American," and wanted to be true to...