Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...For paying white patients, moral therapy usually meant walking or light gardening in outdoor spaces, or needlework or carpentry inside. For Black patients, "moral therapy" meant something else entirely, and...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...passages mentioning homosexuality as some sort of defense when the subject was inevitably brought up around the dinner table. There are several passages that refer to Jesus helping heal a...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...ongoing process of ordering the past," a "product of intentional creation."2W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...The Big Ten's modern heyday in football was in the 1950s and 1960s. The conference's strength, particularly from the mid-1950s on, was due in large part to the fact that...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...States' Rights Party (NSRP) was a fusion of numerous far-right groups including the Columbians, the Christian Anti-Jewish Party, and the United White Party. Its principal architects were Edward Fields and...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...song leaders, and singers of all ages” (xi). Through painstaking identification of the “who, where, when and how” of the tunebook’s creation, the authors portray a living tradition rooted in...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...government passed. This paramount power of southern states would allow the South to remain a separate section of the nation with slavery. Much of the Lincoln-Douglas debates developed around Stephen...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...it, "General Robert E. Lee Remembered on January 19." On that page, the struggle continues still over our collective history. On a following page was an announcement of a meeting...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007