Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...rural counties across the United States, Madison experienced rapid change. In the 1960s, a significant number of newcomers entered Madison County from outside the Southern Appalachian region. The earliest of...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Rainey in 1924.1Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, vocal performance of "See See Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant, recorded October 16, 1924, by Paramount, catalogue number 12252, 78 rpm. With "Betty and Dupree,"...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...on its contractual obligations. Unable to sue the funeral home for discrimination (Mississippi law does not protect LGBTQ subjects), and as HB 1523 actually now makes it easier to be...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...a series of case studies Villanueva makes clear that violence against Mexicans in Texas must be understood in a borderlands context, with events in one country affecting race relations in...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...Miller's brilliant new book Segregating Sound is this one: it makes thinking about the meaning of the history of this crazy section of the United States and contemporary "country" songs...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...Yardley down," and because this metaphor makes no sense to his listener, he obligingly goes into more detail: "Fixin her fur rotten cumfurtably, kiverin her up wif sile, tu keep...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...'matrix of perception' through which one makes sense of the world and the seat or generator of one's dispositions, inclinations, and tastes" (7–8).1For an extended discussion of the relationship between...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...the layered ways in which the loveliness of Walker's works seduces her viewers, helps explain their power. It is the beauty that makes us see the horror in a new...