Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Indies "likely inspired Gabriel [Prosser] and his fellow insurrectionists to secure emancipation through violence" (29). Like Washington and Louverture, Gabriel, when he led a slave rebellion in Richmond in 1800,...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...and imagination, Haley reconstructs the lives of African American women such as Eliza Cobb, who at the age of twenty-two was arrested and convicted for infanticide, a charge she vehemently...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...visitor, “in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.” As an Atlantic proverb put it: “Those who want to die quickly, go to Carolina.” “Having lived in...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...from these mountains, your and my dreams and reality itself are engraved within this collective group consciousness forever. One can choose to repress, but sooner or later, the lives and...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...patients, an elderly man ("Mr. S") who lived alone around the corner from us. My mother runs a home health and hospice department with the local hospital, and for as...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...lived in the suburbs. The metro region now has more suburban African American homeowners than any other MSA in the country. Annual block party, Stone Mountain, Georgia, July 18, 2004....
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...grounds — is still imbued, however faintly, with the lives of those who came and went there. The 2007 release of Flannery O'Connor's letters to longtime personal friend and intellectual...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...in town squares or in prominent public locations, as Jim Crow laws limited the spaces and places African Americans could live, work, and recreate.1For more see, Caroline E. Janney, Burying...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...all the apartment buildings where I have lived. People have lived queerly in these spaces. I have bought a home that not only holds the past but makes space for...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Lomax in the Evangeline Country (Valcour Records, 2015). Third image, cover of Best of Festivals Acadiens Et Créoles: 2002 Live Rubber Bootleg Series (Valcour Records, 2011). Bottom image, cover of Louisiana Cajun...