Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...© Eggleston Artistic Trust. In a William Eggleston photograph currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a young African American woman wearing a lime green dress and a...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...or more precisely the sense of feeling “more at home” with specific terms was useful in coming to an understanding of the way in which our use of language is...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
Finding Media
...film, and many—though not all—are digitized and available for public use. Creative Commons: Creative Commons allows users to license their own work for public use as an alternative to ordinary...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...opera house. Potter was the black manager of a segregated poolroom where Clarence Mitchell, a young white liveryman, and a friend had come to play. When they refused to pay,...
The Shenandoah Valley
...and Eastern Woodland Indians used it to occupy the edges of their tribal territories and as an avenue for travel and warfare. Map of Virginia indicating Powhatan presence, 1924. Map...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...used the catchy melody to condemn rebellion and foretell the punishment that would be visited on Confederate traitors. Hutchison's fascinating analysis of "Dixie" reveals the song to have been a...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...honor to be called 'Negroes'." From the use of "colored" and "Negro" to "African American," "Black," and "Bi-racial," the problem of naming and being named has reflected the struggles of...
A Mess of Poke
...cultivate it and use the starch of the roots for tempura batter, tofu, noodles, and gelatinous confections.) I pull most of the poke plants up all summer long because otherwise...