A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...with the distinctive New Orleans hiphop sound. Back at home, neighborhoods and local social aid and pleasure clubs hosted block parties and second lines featuring the dynamic sounds and dances...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...and the American South, 1848-1865, and Apples and Ashes complement each other very well.) Evans resisted localism and provincialism in Macaria by refusing to ground the novel in a particular...
The Border South
...enslaved people (225,483) than Texas, Florida, and Arkansas, and the state contained more slaveholders than any other Southern state except Georgia and Virginia. The single largest slaveholding county in Kentucky,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...you will have nothing better to do here than sit on the porch and read yourself blind or walk around and smell the sweet flowers" (letter dated 'Benjamin Harrison's Birthday').10Immediately...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...importance of including pieces of hemp and cotton to represent the materials that slaves cultivated and produced: Hemp was grown in Kentucky and manufactured into twine, rope, and bagging and was...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...expand in academic disciplines beyond the boundaries of their origins set some fifty years ago as black studies, to extend beyond courses in literature, history, and the social sciences and...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...stand for bric-a-brac," a marble-topped mahogany table, two large upholstered rosewood sofas, two large chairs and five smaller chairs covered in the same material, and unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...hierarchies, to define and characterize bodies by sex, race, and place, and to enhance their authority as physicians and white men. In the process, they wrestled with the problem of...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...and policies and ordinary people's responses, experiences, and understandings of health and illness. Her current project examines the various protests against Agent Orange herbicides during and after the Vietnam War....