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...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...States is here generally broken into a number of subgenres of rap and bounce, though the definitions and boundaries of these categories are fluid and often change according to whom...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Hutchison instead offers a number of "themes"—all significant and important—that emerge from Apples and Ashes, including the transnational nature of Confederate literature, the cosmopolitan aspirations of Confederate writers, and the...
The Border South
...west along the Ohio River, gathering in Kentucky, and then after the 1820 Compromise, Missouri, and wrapped south and west to include Arkansas. By the 1850s as sectional identities took...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...their way to Milledgeville frequently enough. But there were also a number of relatives, acquaintances, and professional associates who enjoyed the O'Connors' hospitality. She writes: "We had quite a gathering...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...III and Paige Knight. Detail of stereograph. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. The staged image includes a passbook from the New Orleans Gas Works...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...Callaloo Conference, our seventh annual gathering, which focuses on "Making Art: Writing, Authorship, and Critique," a subject that seldom, if ever, receives significant headliner attention at academic conferences today. For...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
"Aunt Narcissus Benson's quilt. She gave Mrs. H. R. Black." Mary Snoddy received a quilt from Narcissa Benson, an unmarried aunt who was fifty years old in 1880 and living...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Review A Gullah proverb warns, "every sick ain't fa tell de doctor" ("don't tell the doctor all your ailments"). After reading Sex, Sickness, and Slavery, the wisdom of that saying...