Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...for best film, and Quvenzhané Wallis, his spunky, firebreathing star, may be crowned best actress. In the movie she plays the part of one of Louisiana's Katrina-surviving, throwaway children, but...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...power and wealth. In framing social change in this way, Beck is able to demonstrate the impact of Native Americans on their social structures as well as the limits placed...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...commonplace in these dangerous waters. In exploring the roots of blacks' investment in the land, Kahrl also highlights the centrality of communal notions of land ownership that undergirded the acquisition...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Authorship in Africana Studies
...questions of authorship and interlinked notions of authority implicit in the attempt to write across boundaries of race, gender, and class, effectively positioning myself out of place as an artist. Who...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...to learn differing local white rules of Jim Crow if and when they moved to new places across the southern states—and even in the same city where rules applied differently...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...to force slaves to recognize their white-imposed, non-human status. Dysfunctional family relationships are representative of the place of fathers and mothers in slave societies. Both black slave women and men...
Palomares Bajo
...all Spaniards are familiar, to contribute to a movement for redress that is perhaps best mobilized through multilateral engagement. Barring electron microscopy, cameras may have limited utility in the search...