Roadside Architecture
...physical ones. Similarly, the agricultural structures testify to a singularity of purpose in deriving sustenance from the land. Both of these qualities, abstract as they may be, show through in...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Historians of the slave community found a similar pattern. They documented, in brilliant detail, the extended black family, a distinctive African American vernacular culture, a spectrum of resistance from rebellion...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...than being absorbed, ignored, or obliterated.10Stephen Glazier, "Syncretism and Separation: Ritual Change in Afro-Caribbean Faith," The Journal of American Folklore 98.387 (January-March 1985): 49–62. While Rey and Stepick make similar...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...state political climate. Case studies also remind us of how similar lynchings were across time and geography. We find patterns—the composition of mobs, the rituals they engaged in, the rhetoric...
Local Color
Local Color Local Color as a literary genre bears the full weight of the concept of region, for its typical stories and sketches offer highly particularized visions of "locale" that...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...of the Parkway told me we had probably stopped at that same overlook. Other visitors to this website will have similar revelations. While the majority of the pictures in Driving...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...the Justice Department to reject similar proposals in Texas and South Carolina earlier this year. The US Supreme Court handed down a ruling yesterday in the case of Fletcher v....
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
..."marked their ethnicity" every Sunday by wearing traditional clothing (29). Even education became a tool to reinforce their identity (33, 58). Other Indians in the South pursued similar strategies, but...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans, accessed September 24, 2014, http://maccno.com/sample-page/who-we-are/. Sakakeeny teases out a similar contradiction in the role of musicians as workers within the cultural economy of...
The Bulletin—August 9, 2012
...the company. The importance of the plant to the economic vitality of the town, and the importance of healthcare benefits to its workers recalls a similar relationship in nearby east...