Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...drink no more bad whiskey.” Now in the August heat, it’s shift change. The whistle hangs in the stiff air. The lake stirs a moment, then is quiet. People slip...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...admirers appreciate its value and interest. At one point just past the middle of her career she pulled together a collection of relatively short pieces of hers about the United...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...its first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson. He then returned north where he has spent most of the last forty years—primarily at Yale, Northwestern University, and the University of Pennsylvania—teaching and...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...and (2) the growing number of suburban mosques in neighborhoods in which both African Americans and South Asians live. Mosques stand out as the most vital nodes of Muslim networks...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of segregation (228). Just as a statue of the Biblical prophet Moses is affixed on the dome of the Jackson, Mississippi, courthouse, the state's religious culture and legal racial apartheid...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...quilt made a statement about the family's social status. The Bensons could have purchased the chintz locally but it is quite possible that they demonstrated the importance of their eldest...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...for a year at Community of Hope, Tulsa's GLBTQ church; as a pastor of various United Church of Christ congregations on the East Coast; and as a person in critical...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...sound, as he stood straight and hard, not leaning at all. She stopped. In the silence he saw his mother standing above and behind the lamp, casting a shadow on...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...of struggles to create a just and more democratic society. By establishing a political frontier and defining an adversary, they contribute to politicizing ecological issues. The climate movement must be...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Union Band Society and Mount Zion Cemeteries. The old Methodist Burying Ground was purchased in 1808 by the Montgomery Street Church in Georgetown, one of the first Methodist churches in...