On Fair Use
The doctrine of "fair use" is an increasingly important concept for scholars, libraries, and universities as digital technologies continue to change the ways that we research, publish, and teach in...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
...sketch in the Montgomery Advertiser by Erica Pippins. See David J. Garrow, "The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott," Southern Changes 7, no. 5 (1985), for an overview of the WPC’s role in the...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, July 27, 2009. Photograph by Jason Meredith. Courtesy of Jason Meredith. All of this supports Salafia's central premise: that this economic exchange and racial activity...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...United States into an insistently coherent imaginary South, late nineteenth-century periodical culture offered a screen onto which national fears about rapid social change could be projected. Most broadly, then, this...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...the continued resilience of white supremacy, Mississippi Praying closes by arguing that Christian moral suasion did little to effect change. For Dupont, the "holy symbiosis" of white supremacy and evangelicalism...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...compelled to contend and collaborate with one another constantly on the overlapping, interlocked terrain of neighborhoods. To examine how neighborhoods change our understanding of slave society, consider the ways this...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Boots and on the road.3See the riff on the “gospel impulse,” in Craig Werner, A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and Soul of America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...contradictory, the image suggests both continuity and change. Eggleston made the photographs on display here in a particular historical movement: after mass activism, the passage of landmark civil rights laws,...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...because the private sector could not meet the needs of the lowest income tenants—either in quantity or affordability of rental units. This has not changed. Even as HUD approved the...