Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...2001 Paterson Poetry, and Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). Jeffers also has won the 2002 Julia Peterkin Award for Poetry and awards from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...an all-white restaurant, or to momentarily avoid a racial indignity. Some white leaders openly acknowledged what a large number of various skin complexions meant in the real life of...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Jacaltenango and you look at Rio Azul that flows swimming-pool-blue in a river. The mangos grow on trees in your backyard, and you can drink coffee that your neighbor grew....
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...our own country, their hair light and falling to the waist, eyes blue" (16). When the gaze is reversed, the eyes of the strangers size up the underground visitors. "The...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...no one was singing the blues." See Drew Magary, "Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Gives Drew Magary a Tour," GQ, January 2014, http://www.gq.com/entertainment/television/201401/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson. The gothic trope of entrapment that Toomer dramatizes...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...