A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...leaving to attend Western Kentucky University, 1953–1954. From 1954 until 1956, he served in the United States Army. He earned a B.A. at the University of Kentucky in 1958 and...
Place, Time, and Memory
...College of Art and Design. An enormously productive and prolific artist, Christenberry's work is widely exhibited and collected by major museums and galleries in the United States and in Europe....
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...and political in-fighting. By the 1960s, while attention was on the southern United States in the fight for civil rights and political enfranchisement, Mound Bayou, like many other Black towns...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of slavery in the United States, photography and film have articulated the overdetermined image and, eventual sound, of slavery within the imagination. In both “350,000” and “Evergreen,” Bey’s exclusion of...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...gross indecency" between men. In the United States, sodomy laws were on the books in every state. By Percy's death in 1942, these laws were still in place but a...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...advocate for visibility and representation within the United States."16McNamara, 13. Like Márquez, she is attentive to the racial diversity of the population, writing that “U.S.-born Latinas and Latinos disavowed radical,...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...University's Wired! Lab brought together scholars from the United States and abroad for its one-day symposium, Digital Art History Symposium: Apps, Maps & Models. And in October 2016, the University...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...Difference in India and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Stanford University Press, 2005), Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India (Cambridge University Press,...
Editors
...the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955; Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960, and One Person, No Vote: How Voter...