Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Modernity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Creating and circulating stories became an important means of making neighborhoods, as the many narratives in the pension files, gathered decades after slavery,...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
Review By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the cause of worldwide abolition was riding high. Nearly a half century had passed since revolutionary fervor put slavery on a...
Authorship in Africana Studies
Joan Anim-Addo: Traveling with Imoinda Above, the cover to Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name (London: Mango Publishing, 2008). Below, the cover to the 1688 first edition...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...inner-city enclaves in which it began to a more diffused presence in and around DC, including Baltimore and the eastern suburb of Prince George's County in Maryland. Hopkinson uses autobiographical...
Editors
...State University Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Wanda Rushing, University of Memphis Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech University Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia Rebecca Sharpless, Texas Christian University Doug...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...