Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and James Alexander Dun, Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). Virginia slaveholders became apprehensive about black...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...capital to enhance economic opportunities and improved life chances for all Memphians. North America's Distribution Center Today, the city's most recognizable symbol of the global economy is Federal Express, headquartered...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...people had "withdrawn from the Union known as 'the United States of America,' and henceforth ceases to be one of said United States, and is, and of right ought to...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Mississippi Choctaw Collection, P12169. Choctaw history is packed with ironies and reads sometimes like an "only in America" tale. After the Civil War, for example, Mississippi's most ardent white supremacists...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...in the Lowcountry than in other parts of America,” so they remain off stage for the most part, “although they formed a part of the overall disease matrix.” With yellow...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...analyses. Just as the introduction begins with Ellington's "Suite," the following chapter, "New Orleans, America, Music," uses the compilation album Dear New Orleans (released in August 2010 to commemorate the...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...never explicitly labels or categorizes either Kevin or Chiron's sexuality; they just are. In the street life of 1980s urban black America, being out in whatever degree meant playing some...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...black abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond alongside the image. Taken from an 1862 abolitionist speech, "The Negroes In the United States of America," Remond's quotation illustrates the centrality of slave labor...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...cities and towns. They are visible in Georgian-style post offices, and in huge train station murals splashed with the autumnal colors of rustic America bringing in the crop. The Great...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...routes are depicted by the quilting lines connecting Africa and the United States. —Gwen Magee A slave ship in full sail splitting the waters of the Atlantic evokes the Middle...