Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
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...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...intersections and with the hash tag, challenging and revolutionizing American life. "Queer Square Spaces," Collage by Eric Solomon, March 2019. In this article, I suggest that the latest "revolutionary" movement...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...for other people’s grandparents’ seeds, exclaiming: I’ve got some seeds. They’re Moon and Stars Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus). I got these from my grandmother. They were my grandpa’s. He died ten...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...R. Rathge, 2018. Map created by Stephanie Bryan and Adam R. Rathge using ArcGIS, 2018. View larger version. Youth, Crime, and "Marijuana War" On February 18, 1922, the New Orleans...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...marched in with his Oglethorpe County infantry company, increasing the number of soldiers to 155 men. With removal just two days away, the privates in Means's company must have been...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Claudia Leal, Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018); Oscar de la Torre, The People of the River:...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...