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...
"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...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...because it's the only kind of fencing available as in the old days in the mountains but because it is now country chic"—had begun to invade the place she called...
Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...this discussion to one community. As I illustrate in the essay, this is a regional tradition found in both southeast Georgia and northeast Florida. I pay particular attention to factors...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
Introduction I remembered back to my coming-out days in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 1960s and realized that I had lived long enough and been out long enough to...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...about all immigrants in Florida. We were just doing one town." I said, "If somebody had died in that story or if those police officers who came in had actually...