Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...could smell traces of the enslaved, trapped in time and space; the mixed odors of sweat and human excreta exist there today. Fifteen miles from Cape-Coast Castle is Elmina Castle,...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...as persons, especially their right to cast an equal vote to elect representative government. In the constitutional debates of 1787 when the founding convention considered what to do about slavery...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Anglo influence on the public culture of Louisiana. An Anglo economic, social, and political elite had emerged by the 1840s, and many descendants of Acadians in south Louisiana increasingly adopted...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...face not just in the trailer park, but elsewhere in Mississippi and when they travel. When Jheri tells about her varied job history, it's implicit that after she transitioned, she...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...education, or a skill. The professional elite, who had trained at the normal schools, seminaries, and colleges in Atlanta and elsewhere were the "talented tenth," destined according to Du Bois...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...and imagination, Haley reconstructs the lives of African American women such as Eliza Cobb, who at the age of twenty-two was arrested and convicted for infanticide, a charge she vehemently...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...the "Readymade Elvis," "Dirty Elvis," "Mother Elvis," and "Third Elvis." Readymade Elvis is Comentale's most explicit comparison of Duchamp and Presley, "two brilliant artists of everyday life" (166–167). The author...
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,...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...quantum later in the nineteenth century, to federal law and competing indigenous notions of what it means to be Cherokee today. While such different formations enabled Cherokees to maintain a...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985); Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound:...