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...
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...
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...
The Carolina Piedmont
...all that is "southern," it has a distinctive history and geography. A yeoman farming society took shape in this region, formed, as cultural geographer D. W. Meinig has written, "by...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Shand, and I had a pick-your-own at that point. Then I hired a woman, who was likely in her seventies, and she came with her two grandchildren, and they helped...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...status and—even better—bestsellerdom, Stein had spent three decades searching for a form and a format in which to present her writing that might help readers beyond her tiny coterie of...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...straight-forward manner to best present the car and its owner. Car club members suggested locations for their significance in the local African American communities: Old Bethel A.M.E. Church, Buck Hall...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...their part Ellis and McLane choose to argue that classicism rather than romanticism is the best was to characterize Flaherty's work. New History of Documentary Film (NY: Continuum, 2008). In order to...