1108 Dynamite Hill
...assault. Top, Original street-facing window of the Drew household at 1108 Center Street, Birmingham, Alabama. Bottom, The brick wall that now surrounds the house, Birmingham, Alabama, ca. 2020. Video stills...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland." King's empathetic analysis brought to light many of...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
The Shenandoah Valley
...around 25 percent of the total population enslaved. There was significant sub-regional variation in the spread of slavery across the Valley; in Clarke County, for example, nearly half of the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...World in Vilas, North Carolina, frames Appalachia in ways that foreground nostalgia for an imagined simpler and remote American past (Figure 18). A closer look reveals the smartphone in the...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...a time, just looked at one another and down at the ground. Jane felt there was surely something hanging in the oppressive air. It did not seem to be rain,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...around antiblack racism and plantation slavery—they drew upon their knowledge and experiences to oppose US Southerners seeking to dispossess tribal nations of their homelands. While the number of Indian children living...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
Thelma McWilliams Glass died on July 24, 2012 at age ninety-six. She was the last surviving member of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of African American women in Montgomery, Alabama, who...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...of double consciousness as an explicit predicament, helping to trigger transformative social action. Slavery in Heaven: Summerfield, Alabama Ellen Schattschneider, Bishop Andrew memorial obelisk in the Andrew family plot (foreground)...