Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...political behaviors within Latin America were variations on their European or North American counterparts. Across Latin America, Afro-descendant peasants took manifold paths to reach rural worlds of freedom. Some were...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...examines the dynamic societies of colonial Louisiana shaped by a succession of European empires over the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries before emerging as the very heart of the...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Ireland Convention, travel brought sizable numbers of European singers to each other’s singings for the first time.14A handful of Irish singers visited the United Kingdom in April, 2011, for the...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...viewer—short-circuit both homonormative assumptions about sexuality and gay identity and metronormative assumptions about sex and homophobia in the rural South. Anecdotally, I've heard from a goodly number of southern gay...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Texas Revolution: the conflict from which the phrase "Remember the Alamo!" comes.3The actions of those fallen at the Alamo were glorified in Texas history and culture, and today, the Alamo...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...white suburban district, and the Memphis city schools, a low-income "majority minority" district, consolidated. The previously impossible—a blending of two district's profoundly separate students—has become feasible. What Memphis and Shelby...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10. Along with the automobile, telephone, and electricity, radio emerged as a key technological component in the negotiations between rural people and government agencies over...
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,...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Waldack's pictures depict the cave as a setting of exotic landscapes but also as a realm of safety and respectability. Charles Waldack, Mouth of the cave, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 186 Charles...