Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...New Orleans Suite offers thoughtful discussions on issues of concern and contradiction, the second half offers an optimistic narrative on the abilities of music-centered cultural production to dismantle reductive, overly...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...Yoknapatawpha Project. Taylor Hagood: I'm an associate professor of American Literature at Florida Atlantic University and a member of a team of scholars, technical experts, programmers, and cartographers who contribute...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...and concealed handguns on state university campuses. A few days later, San Antonio, a majority Hispanic city, elected its first African American mayor, Ivy Taylor—Yale graduate, woman, and socially conservative...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...include the Virginia section. It's a huge collection. 363 newspaper articles, thirty-one oral histories, 121 letters, 104 maps, thirty-one drawings and plans, and 3,547 photographs will keep the most dogged...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...bounce, tracing the music's birth, development, and connection to the long trajectory of poor and working-class African American music-making in the city. In doing so, he offers not only a...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
Review In Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City journalist and educator Natalie Hopkinson uses go-go—the ultra-local style of African American popular music that has dominated...
Residues of Border Control
...at Ellis Island," American Quarterly 44, no. 1 (1992): 85. Museums, and their inclusions and exclusions of artifacts, play a central role in the “production and legitimation of historical knowledges...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996) offers a useful summary of the interlocking relationship of these groups and a summary of...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...and the American South, 1848-1865, and Apples and Ashes complement each other very well.) Evans resisted localism and provincialism in Macaria by refusing to ground the novel in a particular...