From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...of the venerable Arkansas Traveler colloquy in which a high-born southerner (the Traveler) engages an Arkansas Squatter in a dialogue about the differences of class and geography.60Bill Clinton's presidential campaign...
Stones and Shadows
...grass. The shadows of the grass dig into the earth. The shadows of the earth carve the moon into crescents, halves, and empty holes. I notice that the sundial in...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...in a multi-media environment that engaged artists, activists, and academics in dialogue about innovative Atlanta projects.2 "The South Got Something to Say" refers to Andree 3000's acceptance speech at the 1995 Source Awards. "Outkast winning Best New...
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...a platform for interested readers to participate. We plan for this blog to be a space for dialogue about scholarship and current events, for connections to other scholarly communities, and...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...of the working class in the 1930s.5Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Women Writers, the 'Southern Front,' and the Dialectical Imagination," Journal of Southern History 69 (February 2003): 7 (first quote); Michael Denning,...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...space for dialogue between long-term residents and newcomers.89Emily M. Drew, "Listening through White Ears: Cross Racial Dialogues as a Strategy to Address the Racial Effects of Gentrification," Journal of Urban...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...body, and that of a performer assuming their personal history and using it as a creative material, a new dynamic emerges, a more dialectical and complex positioning. In shows integrating...
Encountering COVID
...I spoke with recently said, "I can't talk about it." She started the dialogue and then she said, "I can't. I've just put this away in a compartment. I just can't...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
Review There's a gripping scene in Arthur Jafa's award-winning film, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, in which he pairs the image of a small group of African American boys acrobatically...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37. Wahlstrom's research makes clear that the US-Mexico War did not diminish economic and settlement patterns. Instead, ex-Confederate migration mapped...