Sonic Zora in Florida
...of" such spells, it is "as if [she] had just been born again," Hurston nonetheless was plagued at times with questions about how best to make sense of her inner...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...middle classes, who for the most part landed in south Florida and remained. After the Mariel Boatlift, US immigration policy of the mid-90s led to some increased immigration from the...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...through which the state exerted itself. Agrarian studies scholar James C. Scott, in The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009), analyzes the political...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
Review Few issues roiled the waters of America and the South more so than temperance reform. In "the Alcoholic Republic"—William Rorabaugh's felicitous phrase—the question of prohibition divided and defined individuals...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Work of Looking." Figure 6 (Top): Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, September 29, 2014. http://lookingatappalachia.org/south-carolina#/id/i9215392. Figure 7 (Middle): Brothers Ralph and Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, November 4,...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...South. Although southern rural music expressed the hopes, aspirations, failures, and hardships of rural people, farming culture remained invisible to most listeners. The work culture that produced the music—farmers plowing,...
Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...of lesbian-feminist communities in other urban centers in the United States. It is worth noting that this information contradicts received wisdom about the South, which holds that "things happen later"...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...sense, Black Geographies fundamentally asks what may count as a “real” map and, more importantly, what forms of power and privilege the designation of “map” bestows on the objects it...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...