Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...squeeze, bind.'" See "sphinx (n.)," in Online Etymology Dictionary, ed. Douglas Harper, accessed June 30, 2014, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sphinx. The contracting sphincter muscles of the esophagi, anus, or vagina derive from the...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...death in the United States, of a Mexican toddler in Houston. Conservative talk radio pundits Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh immediately linked the flu virus with "illegal immigrants," the incompetence...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...the public knowledge base that people access through Wikipedia. Here, though, has been the rub. We believe that our authors provide information and ideas that build new and significant knowledge,...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...religious landscape: an overriding desire on the part of the growing Anglo population to restrain evil as they understood it; a desire to advance civilization by way of a rugged...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Palomares Bajo
...of selected articles, which are retained for a week or more, but are not archived online. Attempting to allay concerns, American Ambassador Angier Duke, the North Carolina tobacco heir, took...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...contributed to the content/ of this online presentation of the Prop Master exhibit. Gibbes Executive Director and Chief Curator Angela Mack conceived of the idea to contact Susan and Juan...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...co-constructed view of Acadian life than may be readily apparent from the film's generally modernist, auteurist style.13Jay Ruby, Picturing Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000): 67-93. See also Ruby's "A Re-examination of the...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Photographs Division, http://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.29287/. The flags, pictured left to right, represent states and revolutionary forces that once ruled Texas territory: the United States of America, the Confederate States of America, the Republic...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...rural areas, most seemed to be set in cities, so if I got my hands on books with rural settings, they resonated more. Where the Lilies Bloom was important to...