"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...
Cajun South Louisiana
...War Information Black-and-White Negatives. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC. The emergence of the oil and petrochemical industries in the early twentieth century promoted modernization and movement...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Black women destabilized hegemonic categories of crime and forged codes for living and navigating Jim Crow America. The blues became a vehicle through which "black women protected themselves from negative...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...marriage illegal denied to mixed race children all claims to White property and, more significantly, to White identity. The codes that restricted property ownership and the vagrancy laws that permitted...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...celebrate journalist Johnny Popham's seventy-fifth birthday. John Egerton, a journalist and scholar who has written about southern race relations, education, and food wrote this unpublished manuscript in 1987 detailing the 1985...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...color named "Nannie" living in the United States. The 1870 census, the first to list all African Americans, lists about two-thousand black women named Nannie. An obelisk to Nannie Diggs,...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...having listened to composer Glenn McClure's ideas for working with young people to develop a world premiere of Imoinda at the School of the Arts (SOTA) in Rochester, New York....
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...and Act (New York: Random House, 1964). From the outset, poet and some-time novelist Allen Tate questioned the appropriateness of the word "renaissance," concluding that this literary outpouring "was more...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...facing all streams shaping Cajun culture, among which Lomax lists French, African American, and Native American. The culture was primarily rural and under significant economic stress. While Flaherty romanticizes living...