Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...[conscious of being] Indians. Let them know that we are not Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, we are nothing but Indians and will remain [nothing but] Indians . . . The...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...of the social conservatism that survives in the subcontinent even in what appear at first sight as politically and intellectually enlightened circles. Another word on “beginnings”—moments that are always indistinct...
Remnants of Flannery
... Brooke Hatfield experimented with several iterations of FLANnery O'Connor. Photographs by Brooke Hatfield. Courtesy of Brooke Hatfield. Pictured above are versions 1 and 2. Recently, Brooke Hatfield, an avid O'Connor fan, designer,...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...next-door neighbors — I was thinking about getting a few chickens, and would that be okay with them? — and was again surprised that they had been thinking about it,...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...I thought, what might be discovered at the core of the art-making that Imoinda represents. It is useful to know, for example, that the interview was conducted in the context...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford: Oxford University...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...instability that plagued Indians such as the Waxhaws and Esaws in prior decades and allowed for the creation of new chieftaincies that were nearly as large as their Mississippian precursors,...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...thought and feelings with you, in the awful solitudes of a subterranean world. And I hoped, that, in that mysterious realm, where the silence is so profound, that every heart-throb...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...found in individual identity; instead he insists that we must develop an "analytics" that views power as diffuse and capillary, refusing the perhaps too-easy notion that a power over sex...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...with that section of the country. In The Quadrupeds of North America, John James Audubon writes that the opossum was by no means confined to southern states, particularly during the...