Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Resistance to School Desegregation (University of California Press, American Crossroads series, forthcoming February 2016). He is currently finishing a book titled Making Roots: How an Epic Book and Television Miniseries Made History and...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...the role of the United States in the world. The Slaveholding Crisis is certainly not the first book to pursue these influences; nevertheless, Paulus examines how each of these places,...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Up Stairs Lounge Arson, 2. His book was only the second book about the tragedy after Johnny Townsend's self-published and poorly documented interviews in Let the Faggots Burn (2011).9Townsend, Let...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...to fully cover the topics I just mentioned in newspaper articles. You would be hard pressed to cover them in a book, and there is little doubt that books will...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Facebook, accessed March 8, 2011, https://www.facebook.com/groups/110889371183/ and the Facebook wall, accessed March 8, 2011, http://facebook.com/. The first instance of pan-European participation in a Sacred Harp convention, the Ireland Convention has...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...mulatto, found a more open-minded milieu with less racial prejudice where he could exercise liberties not allowed in antebellum New Orleans. In 1837, a black man living in the United...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...self- and group-concepts in postmodern life.15Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 3. For more on cultural-geographic conceptualizations of place, see John Agnew, The United States in...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the STFU and the CIO. For an excellent overview, and still the only book-length treatment, of the protest, see Louis Cantor, A Prologue to the Protest Movement: The Missouri Sharecropper...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...created that wealth, in the form of free health care, free schooling as far as you ever wanted to go, inexpensive good food, cheap housing, recreation of all sorts, books,...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Mexico (1965) that describes Confederate flight as "an attempt to snatch some sort of victory out of defeat"2Andrew Rolle, The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (Norman: University of...