Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...it as episodic or aberrant, something that occurred in but was not really of that place" (9). Long attentive to the history of white racial violence and lynching in the...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...recruitment efforts elsewhere—in Miami. A former CFO remembers that it was a television program that sparked the idea that would forever change the landscape of Mississippi poultry. He recalled: John...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Museum and Cultural Center, a new museum that honors the nine defendants, housed in a former African American church. That the Center exists at all is due largely to the...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...I said with emphasis, "she's doing all right." "Well," she hesitated, "that's good. Please tell her I love her." That's the story that convinced Ash Kotak that Jheri and her...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...identify others. More than thirty attended that first meeting. Since its inception, the purpose of the club has been to promote interest in street-rodding activities, to create fellowship, and to...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...that we want to put everything into this database, but that is neither feasible nor desirable. If we were to map "everything," I'm not sure that we'd understand what we're...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...some time to come, as it becomes clear that reconstruction will take an enormously lengthy period of time. As has happened elsewhere, then, what is likely to occur is that...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...farmers to ASCS county committees. Civil rights activists focused on federal programs that discriminated against African Americans, and they discovered that each county had, among numerous other federal offices, an...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...to governments answerable to working-class voters. That attitude is still embalmed in the bevy of quasi-public appointive boards and commissions that constitute much of the governance in modern-day New Orleans....