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,...
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...
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...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Carolina (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), 276. We all live in communities. In a sense, no one really lives in the United States but in neighborhoods, towns, and counties....
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...
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...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...to the enslaved. Families, who had been together for all of their lives on Butler's Island or Hampton, were torn apart and dispersed; many of them never saw each other...
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....
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...majority of the young African American students lived in a household with a television. Nearly 70 percent owned televisions in their homes, and only 5 percent lived in homes without...
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...