Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reprehensible.45Many of the most brilliant and influential studies of nineteenth-century racial logic privilege the dichotomy of subjection and agency: Saidiya Hartman, for example, highlights how even the most innocuous-seeming aspects...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...forerunner of Mount Zion Methodist Church, which helped establish the Mount Zion Cemetery. He was disciplined by the Montgomery Street Church, a white-dominated institution, for separatist tendencies. In May 1854, Rev. Pompey...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...in Moby's ability to get inside these spaces. They make for some of the most compelling scenes and produce the most important arc in the documentary. We're dealing with a...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...picture would have shown, among other things, a newer department store and a movie theater, more recognizable signs of modernity."33Charles Alan Watkins, "Merchandising the Mountaineer: Photography, the Great Depression, and...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...churches throughout the United States, Anne Braden has screened in Austin, Louisville, Lexington, Oakland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Vancouver with more viewings scheduled. Kentucky Public Television (KETKY) has rebroadcast...
The Liminal Site
...to its new home, the game is just about over. Despite all encouragement and direction, most homeowners run right home and find the sunniest, driest, and nastiest site with the...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...with a bloodied nose and blood-stained shirt. He stares straight at Pruitt, wounded but impassive or perhaps stunned to see a camera pointing at him. The white boy over his...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...standpoint, what is most striking is not the monolithic character of the slave "community," but its plurality. Scholars such as Deborah Gray White, Brenda Stevenson, Michael Johnson, and Michael Gomez...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the lowest and most defiled or polluted caste in the highly stratified and hierarchical structures of traditional Japanese culture),23While this word is used in English, its use is not considered...