No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...cultural symbols and musical idioms on the national stage. Historian Barry Shank has detailed the development of Austin as a site of musical expression divorced from the explicit commercialization of...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...her grandmother: a matriarch of exquisite manners, deep personal virtue, and religious piety. This envisioning makes all the more pointed Jacobs’s intention when she treats the way in which she...
Roadside Architecture
Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Act of 1854, it became the site of a struggle between northern and southern settlers over the extension of slavery. Although some northern white settlers opposed slavery on moral grounds,...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...area. Potential themes for presentation topics include (but are not limited to): Public Space and Private Property Downtown Atlanta as a Site of Political Struggle Urban Mobility and Access Urban...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...camp, it severed John Yoshida's head from his body. John Howard, John Yoshida suicide site, Jerome, Arkansas, 2004. Resistance to oppression comprises a range of behaviors, from the seemingly smallest...
Negotiating Black Identities
Video Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...up of daily logs, filled with short conversations or encounters, and some proto-analysis of what was seen. Fieldnotes are also the site of thick description, which is the act of...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...compelled fugitives and Christians to find new sites for these and other forbidden activities. Neighborhood was an important space in slave society, but it did not delimit the boundaries of...
Darkly
...if light swept from the channel or the opposite shore. The sky is empty, and the river's bent like a question too close or too far away to read. "Darkly"...