Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...need each other, that I am not a ward of America, I am not an object of missionary charity, I am one of the people who built the country—until this...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...touched on these questions elsewhere, in Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), for example, but he does not address them in this book. For...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
..."Oak Ridgidness": "a particular cultural sensibility based on a utopian vision of nuclear science, a belief in the necessity of a nuclear America, and a sense of expertise, elitism, and specialness"...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...not nor has it ever been a predominant concern of most southern gospel songs or groups" (101). Cover of Walter B. Seale and Adger M. Pace's "Wake Up!! America and...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board and Black America's Struggle for Equality (New York: Random House, 1975). The histories of these desegregation sagas and others—the Little Rock...
The Black Belt
...decline. What had been one of America's richest and most politically powerful regions became one of its poorest. In the 1950s and 1960s, long-oppressed African American residents of the Alabama...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...communication. A generation later, in a post 9/11 America, European students continue to engage Native American literary texts and theories in the attempt to make sense of the world that...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...in America and the world. Masahiro Sumori, Congo Square today, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006. Sculptural tributes to New Orleans musical history greats are scattered throughout the park, most of them...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...tentatively. It's this ambition that warrants respect when watching Franco's first foray into adapting the work of America's most notoriously unadaptable writer, William Faulkner. Unfortunately, this same ambition is what...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...is now well documented by scholars, was foundational in the evolution of vaudeville, radio, and television programming in America. As Spike Lee's 2000 film Bamboozled makes clear, minstrelsy's images and...