Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...but more highly sexualized than white women. If a white woman was a uterus writ large, a black woman was a vagina with diseases to match, notably syphilis. The supposedly...
Brushes with War
...as unfamiliar. It was lost for nearly a century and has rarely left the Newark Museum since its acquisition in 1966. An enslaved black woman in a doorway warily observes...
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
...Indian literary studies, Greg Sarris’s Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts (1993) is a delight to read because of the way it combines excellent storytelling...
Birth Right
...a woman to give birth to a child at home; however, it is illegal to have a midwife assisting at this home birth. Some expectant mothers from Alabama travel to...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...claims clothes were shed by a man and woman wed less than a month, who let hoe and plow handle slip from hands, left rows half done, crossed dark waves...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...author of Wishing for Snow: A Memoir (2004), The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading (2002), and The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference (1990), and...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Aracena-Montero Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala Antonio Davon Brown Darryl Roman Burt II Angel L. Candelario-Padro Juan Chevez-Martinez Luis Daniel Conde Cory James Connell Tevin Eugene Crosby Deonka Deidra Drayton Simon Adrian Carrillo...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...the 1970s to discuss which term should be adopted to uniformly collect data about the population.24Grace Flores-Hughes, A Tale of Survival: Memoir of an Hispanic Woman (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2011)....
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Cultural and Social Anthropology, 48.1(2009), 1-20. John Soloman Otto and Augustus Marion Burns III, "Traditional Agricultural Practices in the Arkansas Highlands," The Journal of American Folklore, 94 (1981), 166-187. Rafferty,...