Unquiet Emmett Till
...His footnotes cite one letter each from the sympathetic towns, none from the disinterested one. Or again, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published two very pointed letters to the editor after the...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...largest schools for Black Americans in the region. Eatonville rose to national recognition due to the writings of one of its most famous residents, Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes Were...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...of narrative imagination include Imani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018); Lisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...lived to Purpose: He preach'd with Fidelity: He pray'd for his People: And being dead he speaks. The rear of the stone adds one factual detail: He left to the...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Magoffin of Kentucky. Hale's letter appeared nearly seventy years after the Haitian Revolution began and fifty-five years after Haiti won independence from France. Nevertheless, as Carl Lawrence Paulus demonstrates in...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...African Americans. As Eugene H. Berwanger has illustrated, "a large group of settlers was more anti-Negro than antislavery."11Eugene H. Berwanger, The Frontier Against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...them down, even going on a stake-out in New Orleans.20Sibley, Turned Funny, 258. The children had gone to live with Cricket's parents in Indiana and neither Mary nor Celestine saw them...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ran an influential eight-part series on the decline of the port in 1982. See Christopher Drew, "Flagship of Area's Economy Losing Out to Hustling Rivals," The Times-Picayune, June 13, 1982....
The Black Belt
...decline. What had been one of America's richest and most politically powerful regions became one of its poorest. In the 1950s and 1960s, long-oppressed African American residents of the Alabama...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...Sexuality: Volume One: An Introduction (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), 78. The book's title is often translated as "Volume One: An Introduction." The "truth" of sex for Foucault is not...