An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...route and show up with a great jazz band and huge dance floor and entertain a community, clean up, and move on to the next one. There were probably forty...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...rights of citizenship.1I am indebted to the work of black feminist thinkers and scholars in Native American and Indigenous studies and Queer studies in my analysis of family, race, and...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...of his verse are restless transit and constant motion. As he notes in his extraordinary travelogue Into and Out of Dislocation (2000), "border crossings are always sexy. And racial."24C. S. Giscombe, Into and...
The Carolina Piedmont
Landscape and Settlement As pioneers, traders, and military men traversed the region in the early eighteenth century, they found the towns of Catawba, Saponi, and Saura Indians and trading paths...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...family in Columbia, South Carolina, and a cluster of black Clifton families between Columbia and the Savannah River—in the Barnwell County townships of Barnwell, Blackville, Bamberg and Diamond Hill, and...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...aimed for an audience of scholars and teachers, students in and out of classrooms, writers and media producers, and the general public. We wanted to distinguish Southern Spaces from strictly...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...on such a variety of material, Longmire and the band made a broader statement as well. Though the Blue Valley Boys and Girls performed frequently in and around LaFollette and...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Her second project, tentatively titled In the Plantations' Shadows: Black Peasants and Land Ownership by Possession in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Spanish Equatorial Guinea, 1880–1960, explores a mode of land...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Teney, Sr., the apparent husband of Matilda and father of Ann. Andrew and William were evidently born to Matilda after her recapture and relocation to the District of Columbia. Four months...