The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Review Cover of David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan's The Makers of the Sacred Harp, 2010. Shape-note singing from The Sacred Harp tunebook is one of the most vibrant...
Residues of Border Control
Residual Objects at the Border and Immigrant Trajectories Material leftovers and abject residue are signs of the peculiar transformations . . . perversely, they show us that meaning has been...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
Introduction In an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, Mexican children ask, “Where were the Hispanics with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis?” An Egyptian girl at the same school wonders...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
Essay Allison O. Adams, Lucy (Rhode Island red) and Ethel (Buff Orpington) enjoy a bath of dust and sunshine in Adams’s backyard, Decatur, Georgia, November 2009. For the first two...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
In Search of Justice Mother Jones once said, "There is no peace in West Virginia, because there is no justice [in West Virginia]." This is as true today as when...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
The Dispossession What happened in rural America during the quarter century after 1950 has been eclipsed by the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and growing...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
Greetings by Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces the 2014 Callaloo Conference. I am Natasha Trethewey, the Director of the Creative Writing Program and I’m pleased to welcome you to this...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
Introduction Many of the novels that we call plantation romances also bear a different name: we know them and see them discussed as "Anti-Tom novels," written implicitly or explicitly to...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
Introduction: A Visit to Andalusia, August 2007 The road leading to the farmhouse is long, rutted, and unpaved —the land surrounding it, quiet and unkempt. I pass a dilapidated milking...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
Introduction: Defining the Subject "The problem of the twentieth century," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote one hundred years ago, "is the problem of the color-line." He was referring to...