Gold Records in Deep Space
...Reenactment of Blind Willie Johnson in The Soul of a Man, 2003. What's different about Wenders' reenactments for The Soul of a Man is that they look like actual fragments...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
Essay And what erudition. He can even read stone. Only he never figures out that the veins in the marble of Diocletian's baths are the burst blood vessels of slaves...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
..."gateway drug" theory that ultimately proved highly influential in bolstering a prohibitory stance on marijuana throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Police Detective Henry Asset stressed that the...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...Evanson. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. We forget what secession and the creation of the Confederacy meant for citizenship. The states that seceded believed that it was their right...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...as that cockroach, and I will leave it up to the reader, and the film viewer, to interpret whether or not I am suggesting that a miracle is needed or...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...of the place attachment expressed by residents, the town's population increased after the rebuilding periods that followed numerous floods. Like Princeville, the town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, also came about...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...alongside the coral. Vicissitudes, a monument that explores the creative and memorial agency of Caribbean underwater spaces, serves as one of many objects that Valérie Loichot examines in her book,...
The Liminal Site
...Nashville Railroad, which carried iron ore from the mines that still angle down into the narrow seam of ore-bearing sandstone that runs along the ridge. Today, it's a footpath that...
Writing Appalachia
...of Appalachian literature that is comprehensive, reflects contemporary ideas about authorship and Appalachia, and brings readers well into the twenty-first century. That is what this book attempts to do. In...
Encountering COVID
...about what they wanted to. They talked about what really mattered to them, what really defined this period of time, and what made it very difficult, or challenging, or surprising....