Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...centered on southern states. Two recent books by Wendy Gonaver and Mab Segrest explore some of this missing history. Gonaver's The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry 1840–18806Wendy...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...racial order of the Jim Crow South. Reed considers himself a southerner with "a small asterisk."1Reed, Adolph L. Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (New York: Verso Books, 2022),...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...clerks, leaving room in front of them for the auctioneer and the goods.61Doesticks, 14. Mary Beth D'Alonzo (1999) utilizes two of the GHS images of the Savannah Jockey Club in...
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
...was hurt, the blast, which woke people from their sleep several blocks away, caused almost $200,000 of damage.1Atlanta Constitution, October 13, 1958; New York Times, October 16, 1958. For a...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...Harp and the significance of this region to the book’s creation. Settlement by whites and enslaved blacks was made possible by treaties and appropriations between 1805 and 1836 through which...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century, participation in Sacred Harp has been tied to local, church, and kinship networks.1George Pullen Jackson, White...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...blacks, second day, no blacks." The days and weeks passed and "no one came." When it became clear she would be the sole black student for the remainder of that...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007