Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...parade, McClellanville, South Carolina, 2010. Low Country African American social life remains centered around churches and there is a strong spiritual camaraderie between car club members. As prescribed in the...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...by 2007/08 African American enrollment grew by 40,607 high school students so that African Americans now comprise just under 50 percent of total enrollments. Latino high school student enrollment grew...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) to the more recent Cuban American writing of the 1980s–90s. He invests substantial energy in altering the grand, exceptionalist narrative of southern literary studies, which goes...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...The project released its database of descendants in May 2019 with American Ancestors by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see the GU272 Descendants, 1785–2000 database, www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/2756/gu272-descendants-1785-2000). Third, historian Sharon...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...district. I recently participated in worship services with many of these descendants at the Seneca Community Church, where stories of African American contributions to the first Smithsonian building are proudly...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...centers on an American Indian who kneels before an enthroned Minerva—Roman goddess of wisdom, warfare, arts, trade, strategy, and commerce—and proffers a partially unscrolled map. Scenes of indigenous people offering...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...of African Americans from the South played football in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Southwest Conference (SWC), leaving the best African American high-school players...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...generation of academics have named it the southern imaginary—runs deep in American culture. We know that it defines, ensnares, and empowers whites and blacks. We know it has tremendous flexibility...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London and New...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynching for the state (6). Discrimination sign, Dimmitt, Texas, 1949. Photograph by Russell Werner Lee. Courtesy of Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. If mobs...