Artist Repertoire Index
...Meat Skin Barfield, Cecil aka William Robertson (1976, 1977, 1980, 1981) Ain’t Nobody’s Fool Baby, Please Don’t Go Big Legged Woman The Blue of the Mojo Hand Bottle Up and...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...at dawn every day, to go walk with Miz Thelma, a white woman who is her friend. Their route is around the one strip mall in town, where there is...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...cuts off the leg of a slave boy, and a slave woman sucks the cut-off leg. A Confederate soldier prepares for battle by sucking a slave woman's breast. A slave...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...and fearlessness toward the powerful. She studied the social conditions of Gilded Age America, developed her oratorical skills, and as an elderly woman she emerged as Mother Jones, the fierce...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. Courtesy of Tuscaloosa News. Like most listeners, I'm sure, what I love best about S-Town is McLemore's irrepressible character and voice. McLemore was an antique...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...authority. In this image the woman under arrest is doing all she can to wrestle free, including attempting to bite one of three policemen. Berger explains that this image was...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...for, among other things, playing local rap on New Orleans's listener-supported community radio station, WWOZ 90.7FM.14See Scott Jordan, "The Rap on WWOZ," The Gambit, August 19, 2003, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/the-rap-on-wwoz/Content?oid=1241861. Rogan was...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...and litigants puzzled out enslaved people's rights of access to autonomy, property, and family, case by case. Would a woman who had purchased her freedom while pregnant give birth to...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...but more highly sexualized than white women. If a white woman was a uterus writ large, a black woman was a vagina with diseases to match, notably syphilis. The supposedly...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...domain. Legend: Green: "Best"; Blue: "Still Desirable"; Yellow: "Definitely Declining"; Red: "Hazardous"; Grey: "Negro Concentrations"; Crosshatched Lines: "Commercial and Industrial"; Diagonal Lines: "Undeveloped." The imperative that a black man must...