Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...contemporary music to brass bands, these innovations have disturbed some members of an older generation who call for the preservation of traditions that include second lines and jazz funerals within...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...of equality . . . not only did not include African Americans; it also depended on them" (199). With blacks consigned to their paternalistic place and working-class whites thoroughly despised,...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic human trade and provide a means for addressing a painful and shameful American experience whose vestiges persist today. These ceremonies feature rituals incorporating representatives of African, Native American, Asian,...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...and the 2009 American Community Survey, the county's population increased from just over 300,000 to nearly 900,000. Three-quarters of this growth occurred between 1990 and 2009. Approximately 275,000 people were...
Submission Guidelines
...photographers, journalists, and artists in such areas as geography, southern studies, regional studies, African American, Indigenous, and American Studies, women's and gender studies, public health, and social justice. We are...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...2.6 jobs for American workers. Asian immigrants frequently come with or earn advanced degrees. What are the policy implications of this phenomenon for the region? What does this blind spot...
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...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...
Infant gravesites, Japanese American concentration camp cemetery, Rohwer, Arkansas, 2004