Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...spaces are commodified, exploited, and profaned. Closely appended to Loichot's unritual are the notions of "undead" and "unrest"; the liminal zone of (non)being they demarcate emphasizes the unritual's alienating, unsettling,...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...to settlement in the southernmost United States. Rippley, however, apparently didn't consider the term within the parlance of the era.10La Vern J. Rippley, The German Americans (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers,...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...sense, Black Geographies fundamentally asks what may count as a “real” map and, more importantly, what forms of power and privilege the designation of “map” bestows on the objects it...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...character would say.” Antoinette Locklear Hurtt as "Connie" The person who did the most ad libbing was Antoinette Locklear Hurtt, who played Connie. And she got a best supporting actor...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...a family of apparently fairly well-to-do drapers. He studied for the ministry at the University of Glasgow, emigrated to America in 1750, and became a protégé of an important New...
The Liminal Site
...and neighborhood and second-growth woods that seem much older. More: Red Mountain is almost the last ridge of the great Appalachians running nearly the length of the eastern United States....
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...