Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...our institutions to avoid creating a two- or three-tiered higher-education system where some people cannot access any kind of education, others can only afford to enroll in online education, and...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...in their code of conduct: they require citations. Their references and recommended resources sections aggregate online materials, provding users with a range of further reading. They also seem to be...
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
Introduction James V. Catano Lush wilderness in a remote bayou and the exploratory genius of oil drilling technology; traditional ways of living and the intrusions of modern life; natural wealth...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...testimonies from the online Bracero History Archive, at times the material challenges Mckiernan-González's ability to analyze it. These unruly narratives, like the unruly borders and travelers who crossed them, represent...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
Review As I write this review of Robert Wuthnow's compelling account of Texas religious and cultural history, I am struck by two seemingly unrelated yet telling events that resonate...
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...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
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...