New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...in the corner of the room, making small talk in Cajun French even though my "project" tries to avoid nativist ideologies about Louisiana culture.2For instance, the ideologies that promote a...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In particular, he examines Anglo attacks against Mexicans in the...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
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...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...an instant, and Shirley was quiet. It was three days now since Shirley had begun to die, and everyone knew now and had given up any hope. Even the white...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...born 1953). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Image © Dawoud Bey. Born in 1953 in Queens, New York, Dawoud Bey, ever drawn to sound, aspired to be a musician before he became...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry defended the city against the monarch's claim to divine right. More recently, the Free Derry civil rights movement represented a modern freedom struggle. On...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013); Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Knopf, 2014); and Edward E....
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
Readings Fall Creek As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore...