Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...(as well as American) literature.8A list partial and incomplete would include James Agee, Dorothy Allison, Raymond Andrews, Maya Angelou, Harriette Arnow, Doris Betts, Arna Bontemps, Olive Ann Burns, George Washington...
The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...better. Mama said to stay around the church grounds." "Aw, you're just afraid." "No, it's just that—" "'Mama said to stay around the church grounds!' Fraidycat, I'll go by myself...
A City Divided
...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...life. On the banks of the Mississippi between Coahoma and Sunflower counties, sits Bolivar County and the city of Mound Bayou. Founded in 1887 near Chickasaw burial grounds by a...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of local studies within civil rights historiography in general. We are now some years past landmark publications such as Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard's Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Education Betsy DeVos’s plan to spend billions of federal dollars on private school vouchers. Sign protesting Betsy DeVos at a rally, October 13, 2017. Photograph by Flickr user Backbone Campaign....
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...and ethnicity. 5. Comparisons in the evolution of Jim Crow between North and South, and between regions within the South. 6. Continuities in institutionalized racism following the Jim Crow period....