Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...Woodward's assessment in 1975 was not unlike that of Faulkner in 1933, who quipped that the South would never accomplish anything in "music and the plastic arts." Faulkner is famous...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...like "climate" to reveal that nineteenth-century European and American understandings of health and disease were inextricable from their environment. When nineteenth-century Germans referred to their suitability to certain climates, they...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...the state in her infanticide trial reversed himself, declaring that Cobb had not committed infanticide and that her child had more than likely been stillborn. Guards and administrators submitted letters...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...laws resulting in racial discrimination. The Court's decision will likely unleash a new round of widespread discrimination in voting across the nation and continues its section-by-section destruction of the law...
Deep Ellum Blues
...trying to get to something like the newly developed Quadrangle, an elegant new shopping development just a few blocks away in the Oak Lawn district. Perhaps a wrong turn was...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...to home, are linguistically bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...Calvin Cruce. Courtesy of Georgia State University Library, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Archives. This metronormativity has been questioned in studies of rural and southern queer spaces like John Howard's Men Like That,...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...men, who had escaped from Seneca Mill. It seems likely that a number of the adult men enumerated in the 1848 inventory worked in the Seneca quarry during the months...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...more likely to be infected with COVID-19, so they were also more likely to adopt behaviors of compliance. A history of racist mistreatment, however, affected their compliance. Those who perceived the impact...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Wood notes that lynching postcards, like slave market postcards, "deemed these events both customary and spectacular." Inscribing and circulating lynching postcards "substantiate[d] white supremacist...