Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...Heilbut emphasizes, in a musical and religious culture that played such a pivotal role in the civil rights movement.3Anthony Heilbut, The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...behind those changes, and the nature of go-go's connections to other contemporary forms of black youth culture. Hopkinson romanticizes go-go as intentionally separating itself from mass-marketed popular culture, specifically framing...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...ranchers who shared considerable hospitality and frank conversations. One recurring question, everywhere we went, was how to involve people in reconciliation efforts who perceive they have lost influence from historical...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...narrative into the 1970s, and he adopts a metropolitan framework for which he provides an astute history, rooted in the postwar period. Here again the focus on Delaware serves him...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...for me, this is the Parkway's real gift to the public. Slow has served as the operative word since the Parkway's conception as one of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs....
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...empirically. Having established this analytical framework, Wuthnow offers an authoritative account of Texas history and the importance of religion in structuring the state's politics. Drawing upon sources from personal narratives...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...reads from “Letter: Blues,” “Frank Willis,” “Talk Radio, DC” Part 4: Alexander reads “Race” and comments on the pale-skinned body; Trethewey compares “Race” and Phillip Levine’s “The Mercy” Part 5: Alexander reads...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...Monte y Cienfuegos; los travestis y transexuales aguardaban a sus clientes en el Parque de la Fraternidad; la droga se vendía en un cine abandonado, etc. Me sumergí de lleno....
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Ohio, June 23, 2014. Photograph by Lower Price Hill Education Matters/Community Matters. Courtesy of Flickr user 5schw4r7z. Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 2.0. Frank & Eddie, Greeneville, Tennessee, 2012. Hispanic...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...