Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Yeller (New York: Harper & Bros., 1956). Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows (New York: Laurel-Leaf Books, 1961). William Armstrong, Sounder (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1969). It wasn't...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Rosetta Records, 1987. Bottom, Portrait of Bessie Smith, February 3, 1936. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/2004663572. Extending...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Bastin, Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 151. Left, Georgia Fife and Drum Band, Waverly Hall, Georgia, 1969. Right, Bud Grant,...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Press, 1991); David Cosentino, Ed., Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Musuem of Cultural History, 1995); and Patrick Bellegard-Smith and Claudine Michel, Eds., Vodou in Haitian Life...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...through screen door - McClellanville, South Carolina” in The Americans. During the discussion of this iconic image, one of John’s students from nearby St. Stephens offered to introduce us to...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...1, 1858 to July 31, 1874 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 1999), xix. The land in question is north of Q Street and east of Lyons (Mill) Road (now an extension of...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...3.5 % Change, 1990–2006 1116.0 94.0 Black Population % of Total Population, 1990 14.9 45.8 % of Total Population, 2006 18.6 45.3 % Change, 1990–2006 24.8 -1.0 White Population %...
The Shenandoah Valley
...the Valley "will have little in it for man or beast." Sheridan's final report on the campaign stated that his troops destroyed or captured 3,772 horses, 10,918 cattle, 12,000 sheep,...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...of a nationwide protest against the practice, organized by the National Afro-American Council in 1899.1Rev. D. A. Graham, "Some Facts About Southern Lynching," Indianapolis Recorder, June 10, 1899, reprinted on...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...variation of racial segregation across the metropolitan region (see Maps 1 and 2). Map 1. African American Isolation In Metro-Atlanta: Percentage of African American Students in Predominately Minority High Schools...