Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...black and Mexican American populations in their struggles, as well as the (usually fleeting) efforts of the two to work together. Eschewing more conventional historiography that emphasizes an abrupt shift...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Freedom Struggle is the latest installment in the growing shelf of books about the Till murder and its aftermath. (Truth in reviewing: I'm at work on a book about Till...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...of Education to end segregation forthwith. Z. Alexander Looby, the chief NAACP attorney in Tennessee and one of two black members of the Nashville City Council, had been practicing law...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...on race and the Far East generally (219). In a discursive note, he uses envelope scribblings to instantiate "Percy and his friends' affectionate and campy manner towards one another" (333,...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...criticism, memoirs, and its few novels—from this critical neglect. For him, the short life of the Confederate nation-state—surviving only a few brief years—and its relatively modestly-sized literature does not make...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...guitarist Matthew Sweet, Oh-OK released Furthermore What, a twelve-inch record, again on the DB label. The notoriously stingy Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau praised this second effort and awarded...
Birdhouses
...along backroads. Birds live, or have lived, in some of the houses, but not all. Some have sat vacant since they were installed, their builders leaving them as decoration, or...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...in the corner of the room, making small talk in Cajun French even though my "project" tries to avoid nativist ideologies about Louisiana culture.2For instance, the ideologies that promote a...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...often had the experience of knowing more than the interviewees could (or would) recall. The archive also provided photographs, manuscript pages, and personal effects (prizes and keepsakes). Since I was...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...providing a fitting remembrance to those who challenged Jim Crow, a monument that would confront segregation's persistent presence and effects. Joseph Postiglione, Freedom Riders' bus after attack in Anniston, Alabama,...