Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...or events and hearing it. For me, it's a powerfully emotional song, because it deals with pride, cultural heritage, and a clear recognition of all the difficulties African Americans have...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Klan, rode on horseback intimidating African Americans, disrupting local Republican Party and Loyal League activities, preventing voting, and sometimes leaving the bodies of murdered African Americans along the sides of...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness in American poetry between Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Barack Obama's inauguration. Tentatively titled "The Ditch is Nearer: Race, Place, and American Poetry," the project will treat...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, President Donald J. Trump, and Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert R. Redfield listen as Dr. Stephan Monroe, CDC...
Cajun South Louisiana
...were the target of American Protestant suspicion of Catholics. Cajuns returned the favor. Writing of Cajuns in the late 1870s, R.L. Daniels noted that of Americans, as a class, they...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...service to the United States with his personal financial interests. As military leader and federal treaty commissioner, Jackson opened millions of acres of Native American land to non-Indian settlement. Making...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...her own project on Indigenous innocence, representing Native Americans in post-conviction appeals. Our moderator this evening is Professor Megan O'Neil, who will be assisting with audience questions after the panel...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
...American Indian Literary Nationalism (2007) and Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (2008). At the time of this lecture, Prof. Womack taught Native American literatures and gay and lesbian literatures...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...United States. In a letter to SCLC’s membership, Lowery described Winn-Dixie’s business in South Africa as an insult to the grocery chain’s African American customer base and condemned what he...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...to work with people," how to win bids and demand fair pay, how to do a job so well that the customer requests you again. When Ward says, as she...