The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...American Landscape History's "Designing the American Park" series, a collection devoted to exploring aspects of North American park history which, as series editor Ethan Carr explains in the preface, "remain...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...breakfast for $2.00 each at the hospital cafeteria, where Helen and Barbara, who are African American, are serving grits and biscuits and sausage, having gotten up at 4:30 a.m. Later...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...and women skillfully exploited white self-righteousness and shrewdly played on fears that racist violence would undermine the state's reputation. African Americans cultivated their own version of the Free State Legend,...
Sea Changes in Personhood
..."American cosmopolitics" (79). She convincingly demonstrates that Bartram, who recognized the "political stakes of natural history," used his work to protect Native American rights (81). "On Parahumanity: Creole Stories and...
Good-Bye to All That?
...young men (mostly black and brown) at a staggering rate; growing numbers of Americans remain food insecure in the richest nation on earth; despite the gains of the last year,...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Eatonville emerged from the lack of human rights protections afforded to Black Americans in the post-Reconstruction era. Named after a white landowner, Joseph Eaton, who was willing to sell land...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...twentieth century civil rights organization to seek full citizenship rights. On the economic front, Black cooperation and self-sufficiency gave rise to one of the most significant Black commercial districts in...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, Residence at 2719 Jefferson Street, single-story wood frame, shotgun interior full front porch with gable and trellis, Tampa, Florida. Catalog No.: PA 5780. American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html American Memory is...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...transit. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, ca. 1930–1940. Postcard by Standard Souvenirs & Novelties, Inc. Courtesy of Digital Commonwealth. Oak Ridge came to resemble other American suburbs. Just...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...limiting human potential. So, yes, it seemed right to "appropriate the name and conventions of Western opera … while hybridizing them with other forms of musical theater, such as Caribbean carnival...