Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Karp's proslavery diplomats, the success of slavery in any one place depended on the institution's preservation across all spaces. The overriding goal was to keep or make safe as much...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...environmental justice, environmental racism, agroecology, landscape architecture, eco-literature, ecological historic preservation, sustainability, biodiversity, foodways, activism, eco-feminism, deep ecology, environmental law, ethical consumerism, corporate environmental policy, environmental ethics, spirituality and religion,...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...and bounce in this collection, in a city where these musics are so often segregated as something different––considered unworthy of preservation or protection and support as cultural heritage––cannot be overstated....
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...understandings of citizenship and empire, as well as racial and class privilege. Mckiernan-González's work considers the medical politics of place, and the ways responses to epidemics reveal societal understandings of...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...a second-class student who was excluded from the stock theater productions, the message finally reached Adrienne. The goal of performing on the legitimate theater stage was for her, as a...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...as, “What do farm bulletins and letters reveal about race, class, and gender history?” Part 5: Engelhardt relates the influence of market bulletins in Eudora Welty’s “The Wanderers.” Part 6: Engelhardt Q...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...creative class, a defense that at once privileges the economic, aesthetic, and cultural tastes of the outsider, the colonizer, the upper class, while also staking a claim—through experience-knowledge and pseudo-scholarly...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...racism and racial oppression. Though Woody Guthrie is used as a foil to demonstrate vernacular music's relationship to class, Comentale misses an opportunity to demonstrate just how class contributed to...