"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...attended local cultural, political, and business-related events, and collected information at churches, schools, and businesses. My research combines traditional anthropological methods with textual analysis to interweave data gathered through participant...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...of devaluing creative writing and privileging the critical voice over the creative, we should try to bring the two groups together in mutual respect and departmental support, an effort which...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...an intellectual and political pitfall because it can obscure the fact that criminality itself is always politically and culturally constructed. See Paul Gootenberg, "Talking About the Flow: Drugs, Borders, and...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...how antebellum southern physicians—white males all—used information about their patients to advance their own professional and sectional political agendas.1Sadly, Professor Weiner died before the book was completed. Mazie Hough, assistant...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...how the unique geography of the area has shaped industrial infrastructures and how petrochemical production continues to alter the landscape. The first part of Petrochemical America consists of photographs taken...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...historical period marked by economic stagnation, political scandal, and the emerging cultural power of previously marginalized social groups. By linking the local music scene of Austin, Texas, to regional and...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...notes the music’s unique sound, the core practices of a communal meal, and forgoing of “contentious discussion of politics and denominational religion” (3). The book moves rapidly from the general...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...alone I thought it might be the proverbial train wreck of colliding stereotypes, but like most passersby of an accident I had to stare at least a little. A writer...