Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...in my research had been lost to us. In other instances, I found that this history wasn't exactly lost, but rather made incoherent and illegible. Viewing the watercolors John Singer...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...of Kansas."41Pratt Republican, September 8, 1910. As compelling as the Free State narrative was, there were instances too obvious to ignore. When students at the University of Kansas raided the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...of musical space and time" (7). For instance, blues for Comentale is "variously a feeling, a mood, a nameless threat, a person, a lover, a bossman, a mob, and, of...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...reaches its conclusion.10"Providence," music by C. Curtis (1820), words by Isaac Watts (1719), in McGraw et al., 298. Two instances of "thunder and lightning" between the tenor and treble parts...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...Rush in New Orleans," Los Angeles Times, April 4, 2006, A10. Latino workers have gutted, roofed and painted houses, installed drywalls, and hauled away garbage, debris, and downed trees. They...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...rapid increase in population in postwar Japan. They feared that population pressure and economic instability could once again push the nation into aggressive expansionism, possibly resulting in another war. Advancing...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...dramatic than in the installation piece, Windward Coast (2009). The floor swells with piano keys and hammers, swelling like an ocean, from which rises a single human head, a bust...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...an imported contagion, claiming, for instance, "that white Texas drovers imported racist violence into the state's cattle towns" (34). White Kansans often asserted that "racist violence would always be foreign—no...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that Appalachian studies isn't interdisciplinary enough? For instance, urban planners, demographers, and ethnographers (among others) are needed to understand urban Appalachia, immigration, housing, and employment. To be fully interdisciplinary, Appalachian...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...to feminism to lesbian/gay/bisexual rights. For instance, Evans points out that white southern Protestantism provided a space for a radical critique of segregation in the 1950s and that in her...