Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...modernity, those self-interested promoters of the benefits of wage labor, efficiency, discipline, and "productive" (i.e., profitable for them and their kind) use of the land. Declaring makeshift agricultural practices a...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)....
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...game on display inside and outside the house, exude a contemporary animist faith of sorts. In the demanding and sometimes cruel code of honor that even the most “outlaw” members...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Prelude: Fragments of Family This book is an essay on men’s existence in the South Asian domestic world, and on their self-contradictory articulation in that world of ideas of freedom,...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...white interpreters at the site used the less emotionally charged term servants instead of slaves to describe the plantation laborers. In the last few years, historians at Arlington House have...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
Introduction Map of Main Indian Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). On May 28, 1830 America’s long-standing policy...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...space, customers now patronize Charis because it is a space which operates out of a feminist belief system that seeks to free all people from an oppressive and patriarchal gender...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Celdrán has premiered Ten Million at important festivals all over the world. More and more the border between the outside and the inside, between going and staying, is more permeable...