Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...Michael Brown joins a small group of scholars who are re-engaging the United States, particularly the Anglophone American South, in conversations about African-Atlantic religions. He situates the South Carolina Lowcountry...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...family or a particular cultural activity. As a result, Flaherty again left himself open to charges of romanticization that regularly appear in discussions of his work.4For their part Ellis and...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Public Library Rare Books Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/af1f02d7-5641-ce42-e040-e00a18064e03. The creation of the national park was part of a long pattern of boosterism and economic development in the Valley, but it did herald...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...sound of his song" (56). House becomes the embodiment of an authentic and "endless black pain" (56). That pain might be attributed to the rapid and violent industrialization of the...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...like at the height of their power.3"Pylon-1980," online at https://vimeo.com/50389377. See also http://localeastvillage.com/2012/10/15/nightclubbing-pylon/, which described the video as part of Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong's archive of punk-era concert footage...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...story, so I've got to have some cabbage rolls in it or some kielbasa or something like that.' While that's part of the fabric of that particular culture—just as étouffée...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...times, the term "adoption" relates to a specific liberal familial and reproductive arrangement whereby an individual or a two-parent couple legally asserts exclusive parentage rights over a child or children...
The Carolina Piedmont
...pulled large numbers of blue collar and middle class white voters into the Republican Party — in this region and throughout the South. What William Chafe has called the "progressive...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...might succeed where past efforts had failed. Nevertheless, a great many observers were of the opinion that the referendum stood little chance of passing all along. Ironically, that group even...