Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...about him. And this restrictive framework is what frustrates me most about S-Town, for I know that I can never fully separate the McLemore I have come to like from...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...also been highly uneven. Until Hurricane Katrina and the need for cheap immigrant labor to rebuild New Orleans, for instance, Louisiana had little Latino population growth. Within the historic “Black...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...closed in 2009 after more than twenty years in business. Franklin Barbecue (left) now operates in the location once occupied by Ben's Long Branch Bar-B-Q: 900 E. 11th St. Austin,...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...consuming recorded music. For Kun, "music functions like a possible utopia for the listener, that music is experienced not only as sound that goes into our ears and vibrates through...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Flaherty's and their own camera lenses as in what they could analyze. The students' work demonstrates the influence and impact of Flaherty in three particular ways. First, Louisiana Story's portraiture...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...rates increased. Day in and day out, enslaved people chipped away at enslavers' authority locally, by negotiating the terms of their manumission and land access. They pulled one another out...