New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...work, relatively affordable housing, and, at least initially, little open hostility toward immigrant residents and neighborhoods. Although Nashville had a small but politically visible refugee population dating to the Cuban...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Single Centers of Creation?
...vioscai Southern Red Salamander Plethodon serratus Southern Red-backed Salamander Eurycea cirrigera* Southern Two-lined Salamander Plethodon ventralis (formerly dorsalis) Southern Zigzag Salamander[SC] Plethodon welleri ventromaculatus Spotbelly Salamander [SC] Desmognathus conanti Spotted...
A Mess of Poke
...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...possession of abandoned Cherokee holdings, agents like Cleghorn had to determine whether a site was actually abandoned and, if not, prohibit white appropriation. The work proved challenging from nearly every...
Brushes with War
...Art, provides a different but equally absorbing experience. The weighty book, produced handsomely by Yale University Press, is carefully researched, clearly written, and brimming with illustrations. More enduring than the...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...of the Literature, (Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates Inc., 2006), http://www.huduser.org/Publications/PDF/hisp_homeown1.pdf. Finally, the Puerto Rican population is not as isolated residentially from non-Hispanic whites. Service sector workers, as well as upwardly...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...relatively obscure in proportion to their significance" (ix). One could scarcely imagine a more fitting subject for this series. State parks, O'Brien convincingly shows, became important battlegrounds in the legal...
And the Prize Goes to...
...scholarly writing. Students worked with Allison Wright—who sifts through some nine thousand online submissions each year as the managing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review—to develop an early-semester workshop on strategies and...
Besieged Terrain
...evidently of most people, every place or thing has become merely a property exactly equaled by its market price" (ix). Reece and Krupa hope that by taking their students to...