New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...work, relatively affordable housing, and, at least initially, little open hostility toward immigrant residents and neighborhoods. Although Nashville had a small but politically visible refugee population dating to the Cuban...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...late modernity" (209) can be heard most clearly. "I want to show how Holly's three-minute masterpieces," Comentale succinctly explains, "forged in the non-space of the studio, chirping brightly in the...
Single Centers of Creation?
...vioscai Southern Red Salamander Plethodon serratus Southern Red-backed Salamander Eurycea cirrigera* Southern Two-lined Salamander Plethodon ventralis (formerly dorsalis) Southern Zigzag Salamander[SC] Plethodon welleri ventromaculatus Spotbelly Salamander [SC] Desmognathus conanti Spotted...
A Mess of Poke
...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...possession of abandoned Cherokee holdings, agents like Cleghorn had to determine whether a site was actually abandoned and, if not, prohibit white appropriation. The work proved challenging from nearly every...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...émigrés from Spain, Italy, and Cuba to retain distinct ethnic and national identities, primarily through ethnically-based mutual aid organizations, the immigrant population of Ybor City had by the early twentieth...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...members of her community, many who sought their freedom by way of fugitive paths, to love themselves, fully and deeply, precisely because of the white world outside the safety of...
Brushes with War
...Art, provides a different but equally absorbing experience. The weighty book, produced handsomely by Yale University Press, is carefully researched, clearly written, and brimming with illustrations. More enduring than the...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...actually be a weirdly satisfying task after a long day of classes—like a mindless video game to chase the ugly punctuation marks—but it took time. There was also no spellcheck....