Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...and often in the best interests of the enslaved. The greatest obstacle slaves faced to freedom, Duden believed, was their racial inferiority. He asserted that no amount of education or...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. Courtesy of Tuscaloosa News. Like most listeners, I'm sure, what I love best about S-Town is McLemore's irrepressible character and voice. McLemore was an antique...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...through discourses around immigration and work, in recent decades relying upon tropes of the "immigrant work ethic," racially-coded language about "lazy" workers, and the socio-economic category of "labor shortages." We...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...the best slaves were those who were a blank slate capable of adopting, defending, promoting, and even proselytizing the religions and cultures of their enslaver. While it is possible to...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...with its immanence of impending loss and unpredictable futures, Jeffrey felt that his best odds were to help broker his sweetheart's sale, and to suggest her market value.19On how the...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Slave was named the best drama of the year by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Having been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, expect the film...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...for Zelia, colonial laws dictated that the slave must be blamed and executed for her master's injury.4Commenting on the Black Code and the kinds of punishment inflicted on slaves for...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...domain. Legend: Green: "Best"; Blue: "Still Desirable"; Yellow: "Definitely Declining"; Red: "Hazardous"; Grey: "Negro Concentrations"; Crosshatched Lines: "Commercial and Industrial"; Diagonal Lines: "Undeveloped." The imperative that a black man must...