Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...variation? For me, getting together with Elvira, Arnold, Lisa, and Michael is part of a spiritual journey. I began to realize that my own language has sometimes been problematic, especially...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...artist for whom the South's past and present supplied endless and unpredictable material. On studio and live recordings, the self-proclaimed bluesologist can be found resurrecting the spirit of Jean Toomer's...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...race and class, in a community where his own divergence from masculine norms led him to be classified as Other from a young age. Moonlight writer/director Barry Jenkins likewise grew...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...as, “What do farm bulletins and letters reveal about race, class, and gender history?” Part 5: Engelhardt relates the influence of market bulletins in Eudora Welty’s “The Wanderers.” Part 6: Engelhardt Q...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...9, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/how-many-american-men-are-gay.html. The attempt to statistically classify and pinpoint the number of "gay" men "in our midst" is nothing new. Unveiling and unmasking our identities so that we can...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...creative class, a defense that at once privileges the economic, aesthetic, and cultural tastes of the outsider, the colonizer, the upper class, while also staking a claim—through experience-knowledge and pseudo-scholarly...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...racism and racial oppression. Though Woody Guthrie is used as a foil to demonstrate vernacular music's relationship to class, Comentale misses an opportunity to demonstrate just how class contributed to...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976); Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (Cambridge:...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...of discrimination against blacks, although they usually did so with words rather than dynamite. LULAC leader Tijerina enforced a strict Jim Crow policy at his business. "He took the unusual...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...highlight. For a movie that seems to have "the business" buzzing, this was a decidedly understated debut, which makes sense given the subtlety with which Linklater has emerged as one...