Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...modernism," or a "vital forum of exchange and transformation for those otherwise excluded from traditional forms of power and prestige" (7). Jailhouse Rock, 1957. Promotional image featuring the film's star...
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...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...not an American city. It was a Caribbean city. Once you recalibrate, it becomes the best governed, cleanest, most efficient, and best-educated city in the Caribbean. New Orleans is actually...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
..."state sovereignty" invoke the notion of the United States government as a federal system of fifty state governments, each possessing powers that the national government cannot abridge without a compelling...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...to rethink the geography, chronology, and social relations" of lynching practices (7), it does not quite succeed. The best essays examine lynchings and responses to lynchings outside the South, not...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...and exhausted from the suffering and hardship in their homeland, my father’s family decided that they needed to flee to the United States. At their first getaway attempt, my grandfather...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Americans and Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables), two long subordinated and stigmatized groups in the United States and India, respectively. The juxtaposition of two rather different locations and histories and,...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...in Dalton, Georgia,” in New Destinations of Mexican Immigration in the United States: Community Formation, Local Responses and Inter-Group Relations, ed. Víctor Zúñiga and Rubén Hernández-León, (New York: Russell Sage...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...of environmental activists came from all over the United States—mostly the eastern United States—but there were kids from New England, from the South, and they were working with a local...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...health response in the United States to COVID-19 was uneven across federal, state, and local entities, the narrative about disproportionate risk and mortality became apparent early and the public health...