Additional Audio Clips from Terry Easton Interview
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....
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...heavily populated by African Americans. Tretter’s use of University of Texas archival documents is effective here; he demonstrates the racist and often contradictory logic used by University of Texas administrators...
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,...
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...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...commonly believed, but as part of a north-south ordering of space on the plains frontier," a moniker used to distinguish "the comparatively settled and stable 'middle' states both from the...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...opera house. Potter was the black manager of a segregated poolroom where Clarence Mitchell, a young white liveryman, and a friend had come to play. When they refused to pay,...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...too.) Mace's book is by turns useful, clear, thoughtful, and frustrating. Mace argues that the murder of this Chicago youth—who whistled at a white woman at a crossroads grocery store...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...owned about fifteen slaves and many properties in Maryland and the District of Columbia, including the properties now known as Dumbarton House, Beall-Washington House, Conjuror's Disappointment and Rock of Dumbarton....
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...honor to be called 'Negroes'." From the use of "colored" and "Negro" to "African American," "Black," and "Bi-racial," the problem of naming and being named has reflected the struggles of...