Palomares Bajo
...were thoroughly othered, marked as "racially different." Their "miserable and abandoned hamlet" was contradictorily said to be "inhabited by dark-skinned gypsies and by descendants of the Moor[s]," a coded reference...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Court, where Duke Ellington stayed when in town. I think that I only drove through the center of this neighborhood once, in the early 1970s, when my family was probably...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...Hall Photography in 2000 and pursues documentary interests in areas of midwifery and southern culture. About the Filmmaker A native of Chester, South Carolina, James L. Hughes III is currently...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...That notion was precisely what had stoked the greatest fears of the Charleston "Lynch men": the possibility that abolitionist tracts might incite violent slave uprisings.12Wyly-Jones, "A New Look," 1. William...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...South Carolina, and Rev. Lonzie Odie Taylor of Memphis, Tennessee, played particularly important roles during the Jim Crow era when Black photographers were largely excluded from the staffs of national...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...virtually unrecognizable to those accustomed only to seeing plantations in the Delta or Carolina Piedmont. Whereas in most other places—as the work of Jonathan D. Martin, Calvin Schermerhorn, and others...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Stephen Bishop's notoriously flirtatious ways. As an 1843 piece by abolitionist and author Lydia Maria Child reports, Stephen "is extremely attentive, and peculiarly polite to the ladies" (419).17Lydia Maria Child,...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...late twentieth century as a larger non-white Latino population settled into southern destinations and were racialized both favorably and negatively as “hardworking” and “illegal.” A pivotal point arrives in the...
Good-Bye to All That?
...of adequately funding Transylvania County's school system. They promoted these positions extensively and worked closely with the local Democratic get-out-the-vote campaign. They lost. In the weeks leading up to the...