How I Shed My Skin
...to attend his fortieth high school class reunion. There, a black preacher first tells a joke at his expense then makes an anti-Semitic comment—southern religiosity (whether black or white) again...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...remakes itself. By following the production of brass music, second lines, and jazz funerals, Sakakeeny offers a necessary glimpse into broader contestations and negotiations over New Orleans's past, present, and...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...disadvantaged districts."3J. Mark Souther, New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006), 226. Political scientist Paul A. Passavant makes...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...currents of American literary history. He also makes local color available to our current critical moment, with its keen interest in transnationalism, global networks, and critical regional studies. In order...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...of a dead palm in the river. I'm saying to myself, this image is brutal. This is straightforward damage. And it was, again, shot from a canoe, which makes it...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...all the apartment buildings where I have lived. People have lived queerly in these spaces. I have bought a home that not only holds the past but makes space for...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...while holding large metal chains. While dancers often train to stifle or quiet the sound of their breath, Sherrod makes the labored breath of the dancers more audible, in the absence...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...makes it hard to communicate within the field itself. Another challenge of interdisciplinarity is establishing standards for quality work. As hard as it may be for a field with widely...
The Place of Appalachia
...relationships with social processes and histories that stretch far beyond a particular locale.8Doreen Massey repeatedly and powerfully makes this point. See Space, Place, and Gender. Third, place matters because the...
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