Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...and Logan placed Caucasian and African American hair together in some of the miniatures, referencing how these objects were treasured as keepsakes of a beloved other. The adding of hair...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...likens him to great "yarnspinners" (Blair and Hill 205) like Jim Doggett, the boastful protagonist of Thomas Bangs Thorpe's "The Big Bear of Arkansas." In Bound for Glory, however, the...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity,...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...US Congress. The resolution had the following goals: To reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers. To create millions of good,...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...whom he fought as a military commander and displaced using the Indian Removal policy during his presidency. As Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Ross counted among Jackson's vocal adversaries....
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...address past or present questions of voting rights, disenfranchisement, public policy, political representation, campaign technologies, redistricting, etc. Topics of interest may include (but are not limited to): Political boundaries (redistricting;...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...resumed restricting social safety nets while offering few, if any, alternatives? Changing policy is one problem organizers face, burnout is another. Studies have suggested that we approach "burnout as a...
Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: The limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: The idea of Mississippi as America writ large: did the “Mississippi...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...policy and procedure. A typical Castro pivot followed: after a very public speech on May 1, the Day of the Worker, in Havana's Revolution Plaza, he emptied Cuban's prisons and...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...unmistakable passion. The trial judge too, Curtis Swango, was mostly quite fair, according to contemporary accounts, black and white, northern and southern. That fairness is part of the tragedy too....