Local Color
...color writers might be seen as promoting a separatist view of region through their attention to difference and unique detail, but they might also be seen as arguing an early...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...and scholarship in today's Africana archives eco-system. All that's needed are fresh questions and a creative imagination; the stories and objects are there for the taking, promoting, and interpreting. Africana...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...the murder, funeral, trial, and their aftermath. More precisely, Mace argues that there were significant differences in how print media covered the events based on section of the country—Midwest, Northeast,...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...Manganiello demonstrates, politically and economically powerful men pursued a vision of a modern, capitalist South predicated on developing rivers to produce cheap energy and promote economic growth well before TVA's...
The Border South
...we quickly discover that the South was not closed but permeable, not sealed airtight but punctured with openings. The region included Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, in the east and stretched...
The Carolina Piedmont
...to desegregate factories and workplaces, or in the number of newly elected black officials. In reaction, drawing upon anti-government resentment and racial codewords, initiatives such as Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy...