Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...indigent, and "feeble minded" as a threat to society. It also emerged at the intersection with new ideas about the capacity of medicine to "cure" the insane, rather than simply...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of the Arkansas Delta and New Orleans, moved back to the South where he grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas,and the Crescent City. Reed attended college in Chapel Hill, North...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...more surprisingly, Thornhill found his way to MSU as a result of a phone call to Daugherty from another big-time southern coach—none other than the University of Alabama's Paul "Bear"...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...with racist rhetoric. As news extra after news extra was published one Saturday night erroneously reporting attacks by Black men on White women, a crowd of carousing young White men...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Her 1882 headstone, erected by the adult children of G.W.W. Stone, Sr., is inscribed on its east side, "Louisa. Faithful servant of G.W.W. Stone, Professor of Mathematics. Oxford College." No...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...its economic agenda and its myth of racial stability, Atlanta, like the rest of the South, would for the next several decades struggle for a New South economy under the...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...online presentation from the University of Texas Press new Katrina Bookshelf Series. The book series is edited by Prof. Kai Erikson, former president of the American Sociological Association. Below is...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...that “contributed to ‘breaking the bonds of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities’” (11, quoting Turner, 1920). The backdrop to The Sacred Harp’s emergence is not...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...graduated from college. Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a prominent news anchor and journalist, speaks of the 1961 integration of the University of Georgia much like her lesser-known peer, Daphne Delk does, in...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007