When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
..."Shirley Caesar: A Woman of Words" (PhD diss., Ohio State University, 1992); Birgitta J. Johnson, "Back to the Heart of Worship: Praise and Worship Music in a Los Angeles African-American...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...by valley fills. Once again, Kentucky suffered the largest loss with 281,347 acres. West Virginia lost 111,479 acres; Virginia, 42,629; and Tennessee, 3,017. The majority of these valley fills are...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...Center, Los Angeles, CA, December 17, 2021. Photograph by Jae C. Hong. Courtesy of the Associated Press. SARS CoV-2 is not the first viral respiratory pathogen to emerge and spread...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...1976. Although the band’s most recent CD, Go-Go Boots—their tenth or eleventh album depending on how you count, and their second on ATO records—has three songs set in Los Angeles,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...median for all groups—Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. Hispanics in West Columbia appear to have both higher numbers in poverty and higher household incomes than Hispanics or Blacks in Columbia or...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Supreme Court. At two different times he's served as chief justice of that body, and he has worked with other tribes, including seven years as chief justice for the Santee...