Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...of color, Dabney exemplified the nexus of race and class in early America and epitomizes "the trajectory of blacks in Georgia" (2). For Jennison, a bifurcated society of white versus...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...America today"—praise that would please a writer who resists regional labels. Reviewer Alan Heathcock lauded Gautreaux's "invention of clever, out of the ordinary conflicts" and "his ability to render true...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Topeka State Journal, Topeka, Kansas, December 22, 1896. Bottom, Excerpt, The Washington Times, Washington, DC, September 15, 1919. Newspaper article clippings. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...2010): 41–2. Gregory D. Smithers's The Cherokee Diaspora offers one of the first diasporic studies of Native North America. The idea of diaspora allows Smithers to remove Cherokee history from...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Patriot resembles Henry Hampton’s Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years (Part 1, 1986; Part 2, 1989) in narrative style, content, and editing. Anne Braden in the SCEF office...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...Garden. For generations to come, Calhoun's white supremacist beliefs and Christian paternalistic ideology regarding slavery persisted in numerous forms and venues in Charleston. Charleston Welcomes You, Charleston, South Carolina, ca....
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Sexuality during World War Two (New York: New York University Press, 2008); John Parascandola, Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008). We've fought...
"Aint that Something?"
Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...