Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (New York, The New Press, 2020). deals with the first hundred years of Georgia's Central State Hospital in...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...racial order of the Jim Crow South. Reed considers himself a southerner with "a small asterisk."1Reed, Adolph L. Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (New York: Verso Books, 2022),...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...of her explanatory cues, the distinctions that she makes between, say, a "jook song" and a "lining" accompaniment, her references to her own ethnographic prowess ("Miss Hurston describ[es] how she...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...by women and children. A giant, inflatable Mother Jones stands at a rally for union members, Brookwood, Alabama, August 4, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of William Thornton, AL.com. Truth...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...reinforced many of the lessons provided during my extracurricular activities. Classes and conversations with Professors Sonia Sanchez, Bettye Collier Thomas, Greg Carr, Valethia Watkins, and Mario Beatty, among others, strengthened...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...of the drowned while teasing out the links between environmental degradation, those thrown overboard during the Middle Passage, and the migrants who drown while crossing the Mediterranean today. From these...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...in one—and went skinny-dipping. Sometimes people walked to a big Victorian house on Hill Street and danced to mixtapes in the hall between the rolled-back pocket doors until their clothes...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...University of Illinois Press, 1994); Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996); Susie Erenrich,...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Butler visited the plantations infrequently, he depended on overseers like Roswell King, Sr., and his son Roswell, Jr., for daily management. Between them, the two Kings managed the Butler plantations...