Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...meanings to what constituted a married couple. Did Hannah Reed and Willis Stewart consider prior relationships, newly codified, as marriage or permanent unions? 12Kaye, Joining Places, 52-62; the Bureau form...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1680–1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 1–2, 10, 12. For a discussion of industrialism in the "New South," see C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South (Baton Rouge:...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...film footage of roots music before the advent of television is scarce, many recent documentaries incorporate reenactments. The 2005 PBS documentary The Carter Family, for instance, reenacts early recording sessions....
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...2001). Important questions remain. For instance, the trends discussed here do not get at the tactics of white avoidance of racial and ethnic minorities. Nor can these data distinguish between...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and those of Mississippians" (182). She employs denominational sources, notes and reports from religious meetings, letters from northern parishioners, and instances of civil rights opposition in northern cities involving white...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...to alter the attitudes of white citizens and officials or the racially discriminatory practices which they enforced. Behnken shows that in a number of instances Mexican American leaders successfully lobbied...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Freedom Struggle is the latest installment in the growing shelf of books about the Till murder and its aftermath. (Truth in reviewing: I'm at work on a book about Till...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...busing students to reduce racial segregation and isolation; many whites protest, some boycott, and another 12,000 leave the school system for other options; white enrollment falls to 50,000, while blacks...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...on race and the Far East generally (219). In a discursive note, he uses envelope scribblings to instantiate "Percy and his friends' affectionate and campy manner towards one another" (333,...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...its limitation: refusing to simplify either southern or Confederate literary nationalism into a unified, consistent movement or program, Hutchison thoughtfully traces its many nuances, ambivalences, instabilities, and contingencies. He untangles...