Palomares Bajo
...determine the "revolutionary use value" in owning up to historical wrongs and in allying with the people of Palomares to right them.5Walter Benjamin, "The Author as Producer," in Thinking Photographically,...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...and brutality. This version of human bondage, nurtured in Charleston and fostered by proponents in the former Confederate states as part of the Lost Cause tradition, has had broad white...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...the spring of 1957. The NAACP attorneys called it "completely inadequate," noting among other things that it would deny any relief to Robert Kelley and the named plaintiffs, because all...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignity for old or young. "Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till," Reed writes, "was murdered in nearby Mississippi on a family visit from Chicago in 1955 because he unknowingly violated a local rule...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...the ideological value of the continued relegation of black people to things and, inextricably, carceral value for southern racial capital through the use of such objects for labor" (87). Rituals...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Plantation located in Twiggs County, Georgia. To help shape policy and to promote sound forestry management practices in the United States, Leavell published Forever Green: The History and Hope of...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...women, especially in self-defense organizations that sometimes succeeded in mounting jailhouse defenses to prevent lynchings. When black people defended a jailhouse, white men often preferred not to risk a confrontation....
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...white interpreters at the site used the less emotionally charged term servants instead of slaves to describe the plantation laborers. In the last few years, historians at Arlington House have...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...reason they built the cabin there was because the water is always 70 or 72 degrees. This is right on the creek by a spring, and the house stayed cool...