McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...cordially support Taylor's claim that "in the cave you forget there is an outer world above you," the image recasts this attitude as an obliviousness to violence and terror. Bayard...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...planning sessions, and have been taken into the confidence of supporters and opponents of the reenactment.1I attended and observed preparations for the Moore’s Ford reenactments in 2007, 2008, 2009 and...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...a Middle Passage port on the Rappahannock River.2Further study by a National Park Service historian reviewing data from the New York Historical Society provided more detail to support this "new"...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...from places where singing schools thrived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have come into contact with Sacred Harp music and begun to hold events modeled on southeastern singings, they...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
Women's Space, Queer Space: Communes, Landykes, and Queer Contact Zones in the Lesbian Feminist South The middle-aged man sitting in the row in front of me shoved his wife's arm...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...at the Guatemala Support Network and the different organizations and meetings where I thought he would be. I was very disappointed. Perhaps I didn't know what he looked like anymore....