A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...slave masters. On Epps's plantation, Northup finds it difficult to learn the skill of picking cotton and is whipped when his haul is below average. Patsey, a young slave woman...
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...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...and concealed handguns on state university campuses. A few days later, San Antonio, a majority Hispanic city, elected its first African American mayor, Ivy Taylor—Yale graduate, woman, and socially conservative...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Universal over the years have included manager, friend, and promoter. About half of the people who come through complain about the $5 cover. DJ Jay Skillz has started the night...
Fall Creek
...by a man and woman wed less than a month, who let hoe and plow handle slip from hands, left rows half done, crossed dark waves of bottomland to lie...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...only as Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956, shows two nicely dressed women, hair neatly tucked into white hats, casually chatting through an open window, while the woman inside discreetly nurses...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...woman to North Carolina to learn to make native dyes. "Authenticity" in handicrafts, Choctaws and BIA agents understood, would create a more marketable product (105). As the Choctaws improved their...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...of the individual black man or woman, what happened in their everyday 'trivial' affairs, what took place within them—their yearnings, their problems, their frustrations, their dreams—were important, were worth taking...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...but more highly sexualized than white women. If a white woman was a uterus writ large, a black woman was a vagina with diseases to match, notably syphilis. The supposedly...
Brushes with War
...as unfamiliar. It was lost for nearly a century and has rarely left the Newark Museum since its acquisition in 1966. An enslaved black woman in a doorway warily observes...