"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Era (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004), 2. John Steuart Curry's 1941 mural, Tragic Prelude, embodies the Free State narrative. At thirty-one feet by eleven-and-a-half feet, it hangs in east wing of...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...— and in many instances shared — fellow white southerners' taboos against "social equality." They opposed lynching but were not universally in favor of federal anti-lynching legislation, and they advocated...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...developments of late-nineteenth-century urban life." In effect, this "short-lived form," she argues, helped urban dwellers deal with their feelings toward the increase in immigration and imperialism at that time.9Stephanie Foote,...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...social, economic, and cultural landscape of New Orleans. Life on the docks governed the city's tempo for its first two-and-a-half centuries, yet by the next generation, few people will have...
The Black Belt
...Institution's Festival of American Folklife and aficianados of modern art at New York City's Whitney Museum. To the Black Belt, in increasing numbers each year, visitors from throughout the world...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...from saying they openly identify as "gay." Stephens-Davidowitz finds no reason to believe there are fewer gay-inclined men in less tolerant states, but there are "far fewer openly gay men,"...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the big feather bed across the room, wailing with hurt and a scalding fever. His mother was hurrying from the kitchen with a tin cup of grass tea when Shirley...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...