The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...also typical of southern quilts of the era in that the blocks are set solidly within a grid of wide fabric strips, called "sashing." She quilted around the edges of...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...sign highlights Spanish colonial accounts, not African American history. Slaves were sold in and around the public market. While most slave sales in pre-Civil War St. Augustine took place at...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
..."it was partly because, as a result of moving around, I was always struggling to learn the local rules and grammar of subordination and how to craft a normal kid's...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Orlando1Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 1956), 78. Sankofa: go back to fetch it. The implied subject is the imperative "you," as in "you go back to fetch...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Ghana, Nigeria, and Dahomey (now part of Benin) to investigate multiple strands of cultural heritage on the African continent.1Biggers published a book after his trip titled Ananse: the Web of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the States respectively, or to the people." The claims of state sovereignty have a long history in the US South, originating largely around questions regarding black people and their rights...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...road, "Poor Monkey's Road." Tour groups stop here regularly, as do college students on field trips from around the United States. NOTE: In early spring 2006, Seaberry started calling the...