"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Wabaunsee County in 1899, the Eskridge Star expressed its disapproval on the same grounds. "We are opposed to mob law," it insisted. "We live too far north."37Eskridge Star, July 13,...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...only during World War II. What made him and his contemporaries "liberals" on race in the prewar era was a desire to see more justice and opportunity for blacks within...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...to the living room, bringing back those who had wandered that far. 'You mean well. I'm sure you are good people, but I think you are blind and misguided. You...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...Bridges. The scale and speed with which the New Orleans waterfront and its adjacent neighborhoods metamorphosized from blue-collar semi-industrial spaces into upper middle class zones occupied by white-collar professionals, tourists,...
The Black Belt
...Institution's Festival of American Folklife and aficianados of modern art at New York City's Whitney Museum. To the Black Belt, in increasing numbers each year, visitors from throughout the world...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...from saying they openly identify as "gay." Stephens-Davidowitz finds no reason to believe there are fewer gay-inclined men in less tolerant states, but there are "far fewer openly gay men,"...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...racial segregation" (5), he relies on a number of quotations from the secondary literature to explain Mexican American experiences, leaving readers without a clear understanding of the system. Without a...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...an opportunity to visit other churches in the area. The meetings are called the fourth Sunday and the eighth Sunday. The fourth Sunday is the regular church meeting. On the...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...about reservation boundaries permeate across Indian Country. There are a number of tribes that either are in some type of dispute with, say, a county sheriff over who has jurisdiction...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...while leaving much of the War out of the picture. No female figures are included on the huge canvas and a single Black male is depicted in civilian clothing far...