Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...Anhhuy Do is a graduate student in history at Princeton University. Born and raised in Nashville, he is an aspiring scholar of Vietnamese refugees and Asian American history in the US South....
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...I wrote got published. I just write them with the idea that I'm putting them together in the best way that I can. I guess I'm kind of a perfectionist...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...considerations would impact the vote. Indeed, it's hard to imagine otherwise.5MARTA first went before voters in 1968 when it was defeated in the city of Atlanta and Fulton and DeKalb...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...O’Leary, 277. This sense of isolation is also represented in Ruth’s archival materials, for instance, in two poems she wrote in the early 1990s, “Shades of Black” and “THIRTYONE.” In...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...in 2010, and the NOLA Hip-Hop Archive, which I founded in 2012 and is housed at the Amistad Research Center.4The NOLA Hip-Hop Archive is the first university-affiliated rap archive in...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...image of Nashville’s ‘new sonido.’12For research on immigration to Nashville, see Jamie Winders, “Placing Latinos in the Music City: Latino Migration and Urban Politics in Nashville, Tennessee,” in Latinos in...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...its factory-town founding in 1872 through its acquisition of the moniker "Toxic Town USA" in 2002. The book reconstructs the history of two "chemical dramas" that played out in Anniston...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South, updated edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 [1978]), 86. Brown references Raboteau's statement in the first sentence of his Prologue, which speaks...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...more interested in solving anything, including McLemore's suicide, than he is in reforming the actual institutions of the state of Alabama. Instead, just as D.A. Miller interprets in the Victorian...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...world"), partly optimistic ("You never know").32Weathers, Shitkickers, 39. Here, in a story set in the 1960s but self-published in 1987, Weathers invokes the Women in Print Movement, in which she...