"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
Review In this meticulously researched book, Katherine M. B. Osburn follows the history of the Mississippi Choctaws from the Antebellum era to the "Choctaw Miracle" of the 1970s, when this...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...engaged primarily with the categories we now know as sexuality, gender, class, race, and region. He is the author of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...cannot answer her riddles.35"Sphinx," in Theoi Greek Mythology: Exploring Greek Mythology in Classical Literature and Art, ed. Aaron J. Atsma, accessed June 30, 2014, http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Sphinx.html. This last attribute is particularly...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...exclusively on class relations; in the context of coal camps, this includes analyzing the contradictory role of the household garden as a means to lower the cost of miners' and...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
Introduction by Emma Lirette Saltwater Intrusion, Chauvin, Louisiana, 2013. Photograph by Kurt Lirette. Courtesy of photographer. Growing up in Louisiana meant growing up with the men in my family intermittently...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and much more. Despite its short 3:45-minute length, this video's content, combined with its brief narrated descriptions, can inspire an hour or more of classroom discussion of natural and human...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...over the Dutch door separating the kitchen from the main public space, through which beverage purchases are passed, reads, "This is a high class place. Act respectable." In one corner...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...social upheaval with that Blind Lemon Jefferson blues classic. Hurston: This song I am going to sing is a lining rhythm, and I am going to call it "Mule on...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...of her slip was showing when he recorded the moment: "I didn't want to be mistaken for a servant. Dressing well made me feel first class. I wanted to set...