Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Mexico (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2006); Peter van Wyck, The Highway of the Atom (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010). Beginning with Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound and Paul Boyer's...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...ways, but it was also often accomplished through overt tactics such as racially restrictive covenants that simply stated 'said property shall not be sold to nor occupied by Negroes, nor...
Roadside Architecture
...Mississippi and the states bordering it had, for me, been little more than places to drive through on the way to somewhere else. When the mid-South unexpectedly became my home,...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...and weekly practice offer immigrants "…a way to recreate social ties and generate narratives of self-worth despite structural challenges to individual and collective mobility." The cornerstone of the collusio—harnessing and...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...time "in France at the war" (244). In fact, his breakdown on the train to Jackson, which is "further away than crazy" (252), is not depicted, and it would be...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...you. It was WAY too easy.” A college-age mentality of “reckless enthusiasm” made everything seem possible, Crowe explained. “When you look back, you realize that the odds were against us,...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...less in these geographical facts than in their process and practice of return and the way their works layer space and time to evoke loss. All photographs play with time....
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...superheroes to the DC universe in 1994, Brotherman paved the way for black-authored superheroes in American popular culture. Brotherman tells the story of Antonio Valor, a public attorney who works in the imagined...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...religious landscape: an overriding desire on the part of the growing Anglo population to restrain evil as they understood it; a desire to advance civilization by way of a rugged...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...of time and place. Every lynching or near-lynching played out and was responded to in a slightly different way, depending on the circumstances, the people involved, and the local and...