Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...Georges is the product of a rape. His father is his white master Alfred, and his mother Laïsa is a young Senegalese woman whom Alfred purchases at a slave auction...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...letter was more than an act of gratitude. It asserted that health without work is not worth much. Román was not alone in his desire to move on with his...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...by hand, using the coding view in Dreamweaver. I tried to code it all in xhtml. As we brought on additional students to help—Sarah Toton, Steve Bransford, Paul O'Grady, Jere...
Religion and the US South
...Protestant hegemony. Roman Catholics have dominated in south Louisiana, dating from sixteenth and seventeenth century French settlement, creating a unique landscape in the South, but Catholics also heavily influenced life...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...came to have the support of the Gay Political Caucus and the Metropolitan Community Church, both organizations invested in promoting the respectability of gay people. Time would prove the MCA's...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...as in journalistic descriptions and cartoons. Perceived ugliness was one attribute that defined black women's deviance from the category 'woman' and justified their imprisonment and assault during the nadir of...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...go out and photograph. Along the beach and up the lagoons the devastation was severe. One late afternoon I was photographing in the Grand Lagoon subdivision when a woman in...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...a barber. He resided in a household that seems to be headed by a woman "J. Tinney," age thirty (born about 1820); a woman "A Tinney," age forty (born about...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...stops and bike lanes and widen streets to promote public transportation. The most symbolic public spot in the corridor is Urdy Plaza, an open, art-decorated space that honors the African...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...in the South," South Today, October 1969, 1. By the 1970s, as many public schools in the South were being desegregated for the first time, promoters of private schools were...