Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...the Plantation Americas, a zone, as George Handley notes, "of perplexing but compelling commonality among Caribbean nations, the Caribbean coasts of Central and South America and Brazil, and the US...
Artist Repertoire Index
...In Your Close Friend Scott, Cliff (1969) Baby Please Don’t Go John Henry Long Wavy Hair Pole Plattin’ Salty Dog Sweet Old Tampa You Are My Sunshine Thomas, Lonzie (early...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...the Scenes of America's Favorite Dance Show Soul Train: Classic Moments (Milwaukee: Backbeat Books, 2013); Nelson George, The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
..."almost half had been in America five years or less at the time of the Census." See John Y. Fenton, Transplanting Religious Traditions: Asian Indians in America (New York: Praeger,...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...of Christian supporters of slavery, "To the White People of America," with searing words that echo across the centuries. Simpson's poetic voice resonated when Donald Trump strode through Lafayette Park...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...of color, Dabney exemplified the nexus of race and class in early America and epitomizes "the trajectory of blacks in Georgia" (2). For Jennison, a bifurcated society of white versus...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...prevailing impression remains that this was "largely a southern phenomenon and needs to be understood within the southern context."4Paul A. Gilje, Rioting in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 106. White southerners...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...time being the bounty of lessons suggests that COVID-19 is America's Teachable Moment Pandemic.4Alfred W. Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, Second Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003),...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...