Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...in bronze. There is a uniformed brass band striding down the main entranceway, while a life-size likeness of “Tootie” Montana, the chief of the Yellow Pocahontas in full Indian regalia,...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...notes the role of US communists and allied labor radicals in promoting the argument, as the Southern Worker contended, that "the police, the courts, and the 'law enforcing' machinery are...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...marriage illegal denied to mixed race children all claims to White property and, more significantly, to White identity. The codes that restricted property ownership and the vagrancy laws that permitted...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
Review The yeoman farmer is a central figure in debates over the historical dispossessions that created the place we now call Appalachia. For historians like Ron Eller, these self-sufficient small...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...a "sign of something else" writ large in the American psyche. See The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1988), ix....
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Alex Stepick, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (Berkeley: University of California, 1993); Rachel Buff, Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...senior, a young black woman who chewed her gum only until the sugar ran out. This in blink-and-you'll-miss-it Shaw, Mississippi, not far from where I would later sit with Ed...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...migrant heartbreaks as in the story of an enslaved woman named Nancy who in 1815 was freed by her master only to learn that under a 1806 law she had...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...life, and landscape often resembled an album whose intended audience was also its subject. Each town and city seemed to have its acknowledged "picture man" or woman, people such as...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...the 1970s to discuss which term should be adopted to uniformly collect data about the population.24Grace Flores-Hughes, A Tale of Survival: Memoir of an Hispanic Woman (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2011)....