Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...United States (13–14). Plate 3, 1834. Colored illustration by T. A. Conrad. Originally published in T. A. Conrad's New Fresh Water Shells of the United States (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Judah Dobson,...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...University of Virginia Press, 2013); William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); and Michael J....
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...by that upheaval and diversity. What is "southern studies" today, well into the twenty-first century, in the age of the global-superpower United States? Whatever it is, we think it is...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...affluent, white, urban easterners. As the opening sentence of Upon Provincialism notes, "Local-color writing concerning the southern United States from 1870 until 1900 reveals as much about national readers and...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Kennedy, she collected "fabulous folksongs, tales, and legends, possibly representing gleanings from days long gone by." She also drafted reports on the music of local church services and filed an...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...service "plus one" account of black subjectivity in which the most traditional ideas of Universalism, Cosmopolitanism, and western Modernity are presumably broadened and deepened through the indication that some representative...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...and Spanish colonialism. The Tremé developed around Congo Square as one of the first neighborhoods of free people of color in the United States in the late eighteenth century.1For more...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
Interview Photographer unknown, Tuskegee Airmen gathered at a U.S. base after a mission in the Mediterranean theater, February 1944. Courtesy of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. Part...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...and political in-fighting. By the 1960s, while attention was on the southern United States in the fight for civil rights and political enfranchisement, Mound Bayou, like many other Black towns...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...skills in the service of grassroots organizations whose members have attempted to learn what petroleum-based chemicals are doing to their land and bodies. A valuable addition to this text would...