Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...of which—along with other notable musicians—brought new attention in national and international press to New Orleans’ cultural revival as a sign of larger material, social, and economic recovery. The same...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...insistence that the subject of food equity allows readers to “identify social, political, and economic blind spots...at the core of social protest and power struggles” both past and present.3Bobby J....
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Matter, and Cosmopolitical Form" focuses on Alexander von Humboldt's personal narrative Relation Historique (1814–1825) and Benjamin Rush's "Lectures on Animal Life" (1799). Allewaert offers exquisite readings of botanical sheets through...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...mule tale retold breaks by the fourth verse onto another plane, away from the arrival of the "blue-eyed baby," the product of probable betrayal and potential racialized sexual violation, away...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...and its surrounding coastline were dotted with pestilential fever-producing swamps. These swamps, along with high temperatures, incubated yellow and other malignant fevers that seemed to "occur almost every year."27Ibid., 161....
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Highway A1A. A central public plaza was part of the colonial city plan, in accordance with King Phillip II's Spanish Royal Ordinance of 1573 mandating an official plan for all...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...social Darwinism and racial degeneration.28Abraham L. Wolbarst, "The Venereal Diseases: A Menace to the National Welfare," Medical Review 62 (1913): 327–80. Reformers clamored for an attack on prostitution, artists luridly...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...century to its crises of identity during the latter half of the century. He argues that southern gospel's cultural function, if not all of its professional and commercial infrastructure, developed...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...singing tradition centered in Hoboken, Brantley County, Georgia. This is not a term local singers from the region use to describe their tradition, although—as described in this essay—some local singers...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...as Hearing the Call attests, she possesses multi-generational knowledge about community genealogies predating Creek Removal from ancestral homelands in Alabama and Georgia in 1836 as well as a command of specific family...