"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...
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...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...and indigo plantations, as well as at his Charleston home on Meeting Street. As a reminder that racism persists in many guises, even as it changes form, Page's installation links...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...together the various "theft cultures" (90–91) of West Africa and Europe to create networks of exchange in stolen goods that granted them access to the colony's cash economy and the...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...restore or maintain the forest's original domain across the South. In discussing private ownership of forests and wood production, the authors do not account for the enormous changes of recent...