Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
Palomares Bajo
...an exercise in outrage at military duplicity. It is, as Eric Sandeen describes Misrach's work, an attempt "to situate American vision, to anchor American memory, in the ruins of modernity."...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Native Americans from the Ozarks to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) beginning in 1820, many Cherokee maintained anonymity and remained in the Ozarks. Some Cherokee intermarried with Euro-American homesteaders or clandestinely remained...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...his people had long resided on.2We assume this Indigenous leader was Muscogee, but the older African American oral accounts we heard referenced him as "Indian" or "Native American." White settlers...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...increasing rates of Latin American immigration to the Atlanta metropolitan area Part 3: Transnational migrant circuits between Atlanta and localities in Mexico and Central America Part 4: Situating Chamblee and Doraville as...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...American literary scholar, writer, and teacher, and an associate professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism (1999), Drowning in Fire (2001), and Art as...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...mother Matilda Teney. The 1800 census indicates that the household of Charles Teney in the District of Columbia consisted of fourteen free persons, all of them non-white, and one enslaved. Charles...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...and imagery of pro-lynching newspapers, schooled Slovaks in American racism, a process that furthered their Americanization and their self-conception as white citizens. Sarah Silkey provides a rich understanding of the...
Cajun South Louisiana
...were the target of American Protestant suspicion of Catholics. Cajuns returned the favor. Writing of Cajuns in the late 1870s, R.L. Daniels noted that of Americans, as a class, they...
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...