Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young black men riding through Alabama on the Depression-era rails from Chattanooga to Memphis in search of work are often obscured today and absent altogether from many high school...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the South"), Bessie Smith ("Empress of the Blues"), Billie Holiday ("Lady Day")—frame Faulkner's South as "birthplace" and wellspring rather than the tonal dearth of art that he and Mencken conjured....
Editorial Style Guide
...Charles Henry Rowell, managing editor Jackson Brown, and Emory provost Claire Sterk for their support of this conference and series. Commas Dates: In month-day-year format, use commas before and after...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...offered this alternative. Charleston's ex-slaves expressed the counter-narrative in vibrant public festivals and Emancipation Day celebrations near the end of the Civil War and throughout Reconstruction, reflecting the freedmen and...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...This year's reenactment, occuring later this month, will be filmed for the documentary Always In Season by San Francisco-based filmaker Jacqueline Olive. Below is the flyer for the event, organized by Cassandra Greene and the Georgia...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and forced to dance, bleary-eyed and aching, for their master's pleasure. Every day has the potential to be the day that the mistress will throw a cut glass decanter into...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...was struck by just how much everyday people, within social movements and as part of civil societies, called on the Brazilian state to manage and provide healthcare access. With this...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...“In Defense of the Fragment: Writing About Hindu-Muslim Riots in India Today,” Representations, no. 37 (1992): 27–55. Men in the home are a fragment in both senses of the term:...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...oriented his 1154 world map in a direction that reverses present-day common placement of north at the top of maps and south at the bottom.2See B.L. Gordon, "Sacred Directions, Orientation,...