An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...“Transatlantic slavery…was predicated on various practices of spatialized violence that targeted Black bodies and profited from erasing a Black sense of place.” As a result, she notes, “Black diasporic histories...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...November 2005. Photograph by Jane Fulton Alt. Originally published in Jane Fulton Alt’s Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories from New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward (Center for American Places at...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Indians are perfectly capable of finding places for themselves—and for non-Indians—both within and beyond the confines of academic structures. But as Maddox's observation perhaps inadvertently points up, these places are...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...city-wide art event, LiFT Art Salon sponsored an October 18, 2015 gathering to discuss hip hop, technology, and fine art. Fahamu Pecou, Emory Institute of Liberal Arts (ILA) graduate student and ELEVATE 2015 curator, placed Atlanta hip...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...for me to walk into Ken’s office in the first place. I have been working in the digital humanities and on digital projects for about fifteen years. Despite how terrible...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...into place and social space into places invested with meaning. Storytelling, for instance, is a brilliantly productive mode of place-making.7Nicholas J. Entrikin, The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of...