Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...civil rights leader Aaron Henry, growing up under Jim Crow a generation earlier. As a boy, Henry repeatedly complained to his mother that the local white children were able to...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...married Nancy Miller and they moved to Spartanburg District where Silas was a machinist and millwright. He set up a flour mill, sawmill, and a wool-carding mill in the North...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...median for all groups—Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. Hispanics in West Columbia appear to have both higher numbers in poverty and higher household incomes than Hispanics or Blacks in Columbia or...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
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....
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...a national campaign to save the Scottsboro Boys from a similar fate, a loose coalition of southern radicals, civil rights activists, and white liberals fought to save Peterson from the...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
Writing Appalachia
...with copyright holders. Some writing we wished to include was off-limits to us due to copyright restrictions increasingly imposed by large commercial publishing houses. Within these restrictions, we have tried...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...the perspective of American exceptionalism, which, according to Paulus, proslavery leaders "defined as the ability to employ either a congressional or states' rights approach to defend and perpetuate the institution...