Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...by telling me if we can come and when we can come. Please rush your information."41Susan Jordan, letter to J.D. Lewis (WRAL), n.d. [ca. 1966-67], Lewis Family Papers, folder 140. A...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...1758 "There is no sugar barrel that reaches Europe without stains of human blood."3"Il n'arrive point de barrique de sucre en Europe qui ne soit teinte de sang humain." Claude-Adrien...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...ofThe Next Step in the Dance by Tim Gautreaux, Missouri Review 21.2 (1998): 212; Susan Larson, "The Writer Next Door," New Orleans Times-Picayune (15 Mar. 1998): E1. In 1999, St. Martin's published a second volume...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...in national surveys."5Nicholas A. Valentino and David O. Sears, "Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Race and Partisan Realignment in the Contemporary South," American Journal of Political Science 49, no....
Birdhouses
...the distance begin to brighten, deep blue to something like green. Everything winged must be dreaming. —Susan Ludvigson, "Grace"2Susan Ludvigson, Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...poetic qualities of Ariel's Ecology. Leonora Sansay's travelogue, Secret History (1808), and a novel sometimes attributed to her, Zelica (1820) (in which the Haitian revolutionary Henri Christophe sets Saint-Domingue's capital...
Brushes with War
...sky, from the arctic to the Andes. Suitably, the book's engaging cover image—The Camp of the Seventh Regiment near Frederick, Maryland (1863), by Sanford Robinson Gifford—highlights a respected, though little-remembered,...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...a captured copy of the 1915 Plan de San Diego revealed Carranza adherents' intent to use a series of violent uprisings to regain territory in the old Spanish Southwest (Texas,...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
... Places are, in short, "open and porous," "mental territories" constructed through a multiplicity of relations with "other" places.3Massey, Space, Place, and Gender, 5; Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray,...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...such as New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Never taken too seriously by most scholars, Miami remains a deeply understudied city. As election polls and media reports often suggest, it...