"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...indicates that it found plantations and yeoman farms ideal habitats.15Audubon, Quadrupeds, 112. Many viewed opossums as pests because of their omnivorous eating habits and their ability to destroy food crops....
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...they are used to question social codes that prevent display of non-normative sexuality. Responding to the rouge on a man's face or his carefully curled hair, for instance, Page may...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...He pointed them toward me because my dissertation was on the Texas borderlands. I approached them with an idea for a project that became the Texas Slavery Project because I...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Fontaine Maury (scientist and naval officer from Virginia) and former Louisiana governor Henry Watkins Allen (12, 22). Wahlstrom revises earlier histories, engaging Andrew Rolle's The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...when the boys at Howard White Electrical Service do it, because they've always passed inspection right off the bat . . . The music and promotional announcements were packaged within...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...they did use panethnic labels they used "Hispanic" more frequently than "Latino." A nationwide Pew Hispanic Center survey revealed similar results. 51 percent of respondents preferred to use their family's...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...(103). This multi-media interplay is a relatively new convention for academic writing. Here, old-school New Historicist methods comingle with explications of computer code and user interface to demonstrate how digital...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...whites entering into sacred spaces that evoke the Celestial Kingdom. Just as a relatively privileged house slave once stood as a welcoming presence at the door of the Big House...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Miley Cyrus' Twerking," FUSE TV, August 18, 2013, http://www.fuse.tv/2013/08/big-freedia-miley-cyrus-twerk. Two archival projects have brought further attention to New Orleans rap: the Where They At bounce exhibit by Alison Fensterstock and...