Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...used to think backwater meant remote or backward, out of date, a place of stagnant poverty. But found the term in history means across the mountain watershed where rivers run...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...“Mound Bayou,” Mississippi Encyclopedia, July 11, 2017, https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/mound-bayou/. At its height, Mound Bayou, the “Jewel of the Delta,” housed successful Black businesses, a public school system, and a community-run hospital.2Rosen,...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...form to make sense of the tragicomic reality of human existence. As I reflected on what gospel music has meant to African Americans, my thoughts often turned to the song...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...Ybor City, showing how “the women [that Moreno] organized influenced her even more than she influenced them.”11McNamara, 61. Latinas’ fights for labor and human rights, as well as complex questions...