Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...from the relatively small southern and eastern communities of Tuskegee and Harlem. Such a play between similarity and difference provides the animating tension of the poem. For instance, Great-Uncle Paul's...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...the threshold of citizenship" (16), being considered, for instance, as three-fifths of a person in the 1787 US Constitution (11). She links this disaggregation to the process of creolization, which,...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Carolina. Gravestone attributed to the Bigham workshop. But on his way to the Cherokee country Richardson had acted at the direction of the presbytery to install the Reverend Alexander Craighead...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...in a particular field, like historical background so that, for instance, you can make sense of nineteenth-century language patterns. What I find interesting is that digital projects by necessity require...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...as much attention as battle facts. Gone with the Wind, for instance, as a bestselling novel and blockbuster movie has shaped popular perception of the Civil War more than the...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Doc took them by a dilapidated log cabin, dating to the early 1840s, that had once served as a schoolhouse for local residents. Instantly enamored, Sibley bought the cabin and...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...accessed December 31, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baSgYQtkTSI&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=RiceUniversity. This animation was also displayed at Houston's Heritage Society in 2015 as part of the six month installation "Throughout: Houston's GLBT History." https://vimeo.com/485557485 This time-lapse...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...of Central Avenue, tourists enjoy Instagram-worthy waterfront parks, showcasing urban amenities alongside Tampa Bay. Today, these parks receive the overwhelming bulk of public funding and remain fiercely guarded by a...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...regional writing outside of the context of its original publication and reception.1"Regional writing" is the received critical vocabulary for the literature Hardwig treats. See, for instance, Stephanie Foote's Regional Fictions:...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
Introduction One night in the spring of 2006, I found myself on the edges of Richmond, Virginia’s Shockoe Bottom neighborhood with a group of reluctant adolescents from my church youth...