Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...to the enslaved. Families, who had been together for all of their lives on Butler's Island or Hampton, were torn apart and dispersed; many of them never saw each other...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...lived in the suburbs. The metro region now has more suburban African American homeowners than any other MSA in the country. Annual block party, Stone Mountain, Georgia, July 18, 2004....
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...all the apartment buildings where I have lived. People have lived queerly in these spaces. I have bought a home that not only holds the past but makes space for...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...out that since 1965 Shelby County's officials and representatives had attempted to enact 240 different discriminatory voting laws that were blocked by Section 5 in a place where African Americans...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and the milieu in which country artists circulated. Meanwhile, industry representatives encouraged the mediation of hillbilly music's image. Artists followed suit by exaggerating their rural roots, at times performing as...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...One of the accusers, Ruby Bates, had recanted her original testimony and had even spoken out at Scottsboro Boys’ defense rallies. Representatives of Victoria Price—who had also accused the nine...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic human trade and provide a means for addressing a painful and shameful American experience whose vestiges persist today. These ceremonies feature rituals incorporating representatives of African, Native American, Asian,...