Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Making of Americans in earnest in 1906 to her late-life reflections on war, G.I.s, and the atom bomb. Before the publication of The Autobiography in 1934 propelled her into celebrity...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
Review Edward Comentale's Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song is the latest work in a growing corpus of vernacular American music studies that seeks to understand the relationship...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...interdisciplinary intellectual enterprises, perhaps particularly American studies writ large. We realize only too well that just a generation ago southern studies marched obstinately in the rearguard of American studies both...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
... The judgment day will come by and by. About the Author Jesse P. Karlsberg is the senior digital scholarship strategist at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. He is...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...predicated on exploiting women, people of color, and vulnerable workforces in developing countries—constitutes an aporia that Water Graves acknowledges without exploring.4As indicated by the Pew Research Center, wage gaps continue...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...status quo, to end voting restrictions that disproportionately harm minority citizens. The provision aspires to move American democracy forward, not keep it fixed forever in 1982."6Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The Supreme Court...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...the mundane, and found ourselves in the back of a fast food restaurant drinking Coors Light from bottles, chalking cues where we were the only customers. We ate crawfish among...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...of the oral history program at the University of North Texas. A historian of the American civil rights movement, he directed the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and from 1964 to 1975, worked as a field representative for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of voter registration, school desegregation, and economic development in the US South....
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...extends the peninsula—resembles a chain of islands. Every few miles, you can pull your vehicle into the center where convenience stations and fast food restaurants await you. These eight archipelagic...