Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...not only is meaningful but is compelling, through its use of color, design, and/or subject matter—so that the viewer is not only engaged but is drawn into the work and,...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...City in the late Twenties, were more anecdotal reinvention than anything else. It is impossible to read them without concluding that Saxon had spent an idyllic childhood on this or...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...in any location, be it 1920s Los Angeles or twenty-first century New Orleans, is a clear indication that those individuals intend to reside permanently in that location. Moreover, rooting a...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...rally. An armed militia group which calls itself "The Georgia Security Force III%" (GSFIII%) participated in the motorcade, providing "security," reportedly brandishing automatic weapons at times. The phrase "III%," found in the...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...it saw no evil. For example, in 1898 it upheld Mississippi's new state constitutional provisions that resulted in disfranchising almost all African Americans by concluding that the provisions "do not...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...History of the United States (Sheldon & Co, 1881), p. 19. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in public domain. In the second half of Cultivating Race,...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...conservationists were also eugenicists. White supremacy and nativism—hostility toward immigrants—were integral to the way many early conservationists understood their work. These ideas infused (and continue to infuse) debates about overpopulation,...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Freedom Struggle is the latest installment in the growing shelf of books about the Till murder and its aftermath. (Truth in reviewing: I'm at work on a book about Till...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...It excludes the many immigrant groups that have made the South their home over the generations—Chinese, Lebanese, Italians, and more recently, Indians, Vietnamese, Africans, Hispanics. It ignores queer southern communities...