Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...between tradition and modernity, music and society. Sweet Air stands at the crossroads of several historiographical paths, including recent approaches in cultural studies and vernacular music history.1Comentale uses Josh Kun's...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...slave South, white Confederates appropriated and revised it as a song celebrating their affective attachment to their new nation. At the same time, unionist versions of the song appeared that...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...percent of slaves. These were the numbers reported in a society that publicly frowned upon amalgamation of the races. There were certainly more mixed-race offspring than appear in the record.3Robert...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...represent the approximate number of deaths that occurred in 2014 as reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Yes, the teeth are cast from my original tooth and are...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...United Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) approved their applications and set appointments for their citizenship test – which included a short written section and an oral examination on US history...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...The Selected Shepherd, you present a generally equal number from each of his six collections, with a little bit more from Angel, Interrupted. What were you looking for as you...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...is vast. A sample that captures the breadth of this field appears in Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt Childs, and James Sidbury, eds., The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the...
Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...