Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...Part 8: Spitzer closes by highlighting the movement between tradition and improvisation, features an interview with Michael White Part 9: Spitzer responds to questions following his presentation “Rebuilding New Orleans Culture and...
Topeka newspapers
...Times Two Texas cowpunchers tried to hang a negro named John E. Lewis on Santa Fe train No. 17 last night, and were only prevented when the negro drew a...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...among Choctaws. Another is to undertake the cultural work of reunifying Oklahoma and Missisippi Choctaws in Mississippi, at Nanih Waiya, which Shell Shaker does, in ways that powerfully underscore the...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...own histories. While traditional migrant destinations such as Miami, Los Angeles, or New York loom large in demography and popular consciousness, many locales have significant and diverse foreign-born populations. “The...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...the migration of tens of thousands of African Americans from the South to Kansas. See Nell Irvin Painter, Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction (New York: W. W. Norton...
Stones and Shadows
...and impossible, words as grand as shadows cast by stones. He stabs at a steak with his fork and says, "This one is your mother's — she doesn't want any...
Brass Knuckles
Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
A Mess of Poke
...Poke berries turning purple, Decatur, Georgia, 2011. There is a rural-urban divide, however, in the consumption of poke sallet. I wondered if this gap might begin to close with a...
Work
...the machine room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap,...