Cajun South Louisiana
...speakers as English among Louisianas free population; by 1860, 70 percent of Louisianas free population spoke English. 1800s Language change was part of a broader process of Acadian acceptance of...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the cabin and puts a bullet through the handcuffed man's skull. Because the show had thus far split the narrative between 1995 and 2012, this scene is thick with dramatic...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...have even been employed by the military or studied military cartography in an official capacity. I say this because, between the mid-1700s and Brazilian independence in 1822, almost all known...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...uncovering the lawsuits they had brought against the Jesuits and other prominent Maryland slaveholders long before the 1838 sale. Some won their freedom. Others didn't—but each of their cases challenged...
Encountering COVID
...up on July 31. I knew that on August 1 I would have no house, no spouse, no job, and no kids to take care of. And the big critical...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...of the Georgia House of Representatives would write that the flag, "is becoming to be [sic] the symbol of the white race and the cause of the white people. The...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...as the laws of Georgia would permit," and built her her own house, in which she resided with her husband, a free black man, with whom she had several children....
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...that this voting rights case was primarily a competition between the constitutional right of citizens to vote and the "constitutional equality of the States"—and held that states' rights won.2Coyle v....
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...reinforced many of the lessons provided during my extracurricular activities. Classes and conversations with Professors Sonia Sanchez, Bettye Collier Thomas, Greg Carr, Valethia Watkins, and Mario Beatty, among others, strengthened...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker by Benjamin E. Wise. Copyright © 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu....