From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...close harmony sung in the ensemble. More deeply, the decline in market share and cultural capital has eroded southern gospel's self-concept and induced a crisis of authenticity. Pamela Fox has...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...This allows coal companies quicker and cheaper access to millions of tons of coal while effectively eliminating the most expensive cost of doing business—labor. The average MTR mine employs eighty-nine...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Spanish city of Cádiz, his first destination in his long exile and political deportation under the colonial regime. Puerta de Tierra, Cádiz, Spain, 2020. Primer punto del itinerario de 'Cádiz...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
The Liminal Site
...Soja happily calls "the Edge City maxim, that every American city is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles," would have simply ignored the site, and potentially all Birmingham's parks...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...the El Paso Negro Ministerial Alliance, Nixon unsuccessfully petitioned the city in 1924 to honor its commitment to build a swimming pool for blacks in the city's principal park. He...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...ways. Moreover, according to Goetz, race unquestionably played a significant role in determining which complexes met their demise and which were left standing. "In city after city," the complexes torn...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...proposes to frame the city of Atlanta as a locus of memory by constructing a series of images and performances that correspond to specific queer histories. We intend these public...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...San Marcos, to Austin, to Big Bend National Park near the West Texas-Mexico border, the film has a vast canvas that contrasts with the seeming smallness of the story to...