Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...was to prevent freed slaves from becoming free labor, people able to sell their labor as workers. The passing of the Codes was an attempt to continue slavery. In the...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Opossum Farm," Democratic Northwest (Napoleon, OH), Dec. 19, 1889, 4, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028296/1889-12-19/ed-1/seq-4/. John Rand's ranch in Louisiana, in 1892;55"State News," St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, LA), May 7, 1892, 1, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1892-05-07/ed-1/seq-1/. an...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...civil rights movement, Julian Bond speculated that "until historians unravel the complex links between the southern freedom struggle and the mass media, their understanding of how the Movement functioned, why...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Members raved to Lillian Link, STA secretary-treasurer, about the booklet the STA staff had prepared on "The Past 100 Years." Many told her how much better the mood was in...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...in front of me and the desire to follow intuitive visual impulses. This set up an internal dialog, a debate between conceptual and creative thinking. I walked the line between...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...one of my favorite pieces for precisely this reason. My own dissertation research examines connections between the struggles for civil and human rights in the US South and South Africa....
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Pride Houston. There were two queer bookstores, a free monthly magazine, and several free weekly papers. Soon, I was working for one of those papers, distributing copies all over the...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...animosities between former Civil War adversaries continued, and paramilitary and mob violence against freedpeople and their descendants and allies went largely unchecked for decades.4Carole Emberton, Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and...