Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Native American subsistence systems in the Delta changed over time to include various horticultural practices. The amount of horticulture and trade practiced by the Native American societies did not show...
Residues of Border Control
...the Foreign Born Population in the United States, 2009” in Pew Hispanic Center February 17 (Pew Research Center, 2011). The increase in the immigrant and—in particular—Latino population adds a new...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...African American art, see Rachel Farebrother's The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (London: Ashgate, 2009). Toomer claimed that he was a "new American," and wanted to be true to...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...was African American. The stacked rows of small black boxes that support the platform suggest the unacknowledged role of African Americans in upholding this culture and sustaining its economic structure....
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...by Black Americans in 1887, represents not only the historical significance of free Black towns but also the contemporary roles Black landscape architects can play in their protection and growth....
1108 Dynamite Hill
...the civil rights movement, Drew was inspired to be his neighborhood's oral historian: "The people who can tell the story are dying off." Long before Birmingham was a center of...
A City Divided
...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Unemployment Benefits," Charlotte Observer, June 30, 2013, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/06/30/4137390/north-carolina-will-become-first.html. But the centerpiece of the GOP's program was a tax cut that the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center estimated would eventually...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...of American History, Smithsonian Institution, AC0800-0000006. Kahrl traces the origins of African American excursion companies and riverside resorts that tapped into the stream of black leisure dollars along the Potomac...