A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...grateful that he shared some of these with us and that, through our documentary, we now share this with others. Visit The Well-Placed Weed's website for more information and to...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...a far more complex and ambivalent depiction of the river's role than the more basic—and symbolic—representations generated by Stowe, Twain, Morrison, and others. For most African Americans crossing it, he...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for...
And the Prize Goes to...
...Cultures, MELUS, the Bitter Southerner, American Quarterly, and American Literature, among others. Screenshot of Delerme's article on the Southern Spaces website. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. The class divided into teams...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans Matt Sakakeeny traces the celebrated and contested political and economic terrain where brass bands make music that defines the city. In Sakakeeny's...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...shows the political forces that made those Kansans "silenced" compared to their counterparts in the South. Similarly, William Carrigan and Clive Webb's essay on the lynching of Mexicans in Arizona...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...are nuanced and insightful. Their positioning of cultural production/consumption as highly contradictory sites is well taken, as are their concerns about post-Katrina rebuilding via cultural development and their astute commentary...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...time of archival research. The Library of Congress website lists both Halpert and Kennedy as "speakers" along with Hurston on various recordings from these sessions. Elsewhere Kennedy elaborates on the...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...