Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...the American Philosophical Society 157, no. 2 (2013): 190. And the American Indian kneeling before Minerva most likely represents one of the particular Indian tribes inhabiting the Gulf South, for...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...James "Big Jim" Folsom, said as much in 1962, after noting the presence of a large number of light-skinned African Americans in his audience. "There's a whole lot of integratin'...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...had no place to lay their heads. But would Americans in 1939 behave like most of the Samaritans had done and turn them away? Or would Americans respond like the...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Great Migration. Between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans left the cotton fields and segregation of the rural South for northern, midwestern, and western cities, changing the American cultural...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and an affiliate of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies....
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...her own project on Indigenous innocence, representing Native Americans in post-conviction appeals. Our moderator this evening is Professor Megan O'Neil, who will be assisting with audience questions after the panel...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Native American subsistence systems in the Delta changed over time to include various horticultural practices. The amount of horticulture and trade practiced by the Native American societies did not show...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...by Black Americans in 1887, represents not only the historical significance of free Black towns but also the contemporary roles Black landscape architects can play in their protection and growth....
The Black Belt
...those parts of northern cities having heavy African American populations. Making the 1927 journey described in Black Boy (American Hunger), Richard Wright traveled from Mississippi and Tennessee to arrive among tens...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...his people had long resided on.2We assume this Indigenous leader was Muscogee, but the older African American oral accounts we heard referenced him as "Indian" or "Native American." White settlers...