Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...electric chair. In Murder on Shades Mountain, Melanie S. Morrison recovers the Peterson case from the shadow of Scottsboro—arguably the most significant and certainly the most chronicled miscarriage of justice...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...the "Readymade Elvis," "Dirty Elvis," "Mother Elvis," and "Third Elvis." Readymade Elvis is Comentale's most explicit comparison of Duchamp and Presley, "two brilliant artists of everyday life" (166–167). The author...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...of slavery. One example is found in William Wells Brown's novel Clotel; or, the President's Daughter (1853). In Clotel, the authorial narrator bitterly protests the separation of members of a...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...“new style” Sacred Harp promoted by David and Clarke adopted the practice, widespread elsewhere, of opening and closing with prayer. These actions violated the Decorum of the Alabaha River Primitive...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Press, 2008); Víctor Goldgel Carballo, "El fantasma de la raza: simulación, caricaturas y cosméticos en la Cuba del siglo XIX," in Miradas efímeras. Cultura visual en el siglo XIX, ed....
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
Review The yeoman farmer is a central figure in debates over the historical dispossessions that created the place we now call Appalachia. For historians like Ron Eller, these self-sufficient small...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...of California Press, 1990), 67. Like other key thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Sedgwick understood the "very specific crisis of definition" implicit in binary distinctions like gay/straight,...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...city's HIV "epidemic" to that of African countries. "Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe or Harare or Durban," says Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University's Center for...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...in at least one corner of the South.105Historian Michael Willrich makes a similar argument about Progressive Era anti-vaccinationists in Michael Willrich, Pox: An American History (New York: Penguin Press, 2011)....
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
Children's Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, July 3, 2012. Photograph by Kindra Clineff. Courtesy of Flickr user Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism photostream. Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 2.0. My childhood...