Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...are useful for showing us that the past is "still part of the present with implications for the future," as Dominick LaCapra explains, then we need more studies like Frontiers...
Dirty Little Story
...days of work. You would need gloves, a mask and a backhoe. This public beach seems emblematic of all that is wrong with American culture. On the one hand, you...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...the negative I need for the platinum contact prints. The platinum print expands tonality, revealing a truthful sense of place. I work alone and slowly. The advantage in going slower...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...children’s game: “Red rover, red rover, / please send her a lover, / she needs someone above her . . .” Athens bands like Oh-OK stood out in the new...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...gender. As Hardwig notes, "Neither Murfree nor Chesnutt felt the need to obey the demands of a gendered and racialized sense of authenticity, but their readership and editors imposed it...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...in the song, Cash sings, "The needle tears a hole / The old familiar sting / Try to kill it all away / But I remember everything." Upon the last...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...century ago, The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands gives much needed context to the contemporary demonization of ethnic Mexicans implicit in current cries for "border security."4Matthew Haag, "Border...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...device "the size of a coffee table—the moving parts looked like a phonograph—and cut recordings with a sapphire needle directly onto a 12-inch acetate disk." For her part, Hurston had,...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...farther, adapt and adjust, do whatever needed to be done. There are no truly universal feelings about the shared experience of Covid, but there is, I believe, a collective impression...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...to a western trained composer, if need be? I had stipulated drums throughout the text although I was only too well aware that I was "working against many operatic traditions."...