"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks was so poor to begin with that they scarcely noticed. No, that's not right, because poverty’s so relative. A better way to put it is that folks in the...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Superheroes fight evil. To resist the way the market strips away every meaning but money, maybe you just have to refuse to play.15Pylon, Pylon Live (Atlanta, GA: Chunklet Industries, 2016);...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...South that he was performing as a one-man show. Johnson had experience in performance studies, and he was using his oral history narratives in that way, which I found very...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...weight and time. A narrow corridor leads to an open-air courtyard and an even narrower stairway that winds its way up to the second floor, where the booming bass of...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...I sketch four real historical bars that Weathers frequented: The Acme, Fernando's Hideaway, The Country, and Mary Ellen's Top Hat. I approach "Cheers" as a historical document that records how...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...romantic myths of origin and identity" while exploring its "inherent modernism" (7). By so doing, the author also veers away from traditional modernist studies which privilege urban life, print culture,...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
Review Christina Sharpe, scholar of English literature and Black studies, articulates the concept of "the wake" as a way of thinking about the long term impact of slavery upon African...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...territory that it exercises; the Creek Nation has more options for exerting governmental power now. But in no way does it does it take somebody's land away or take their...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...