Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...an "ideological struggle over the meaning of citizenship and race that played out between the founding of the nation and the rise of the Confederacy" (3). Top, General Oglethorpe Statue in...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...linked racial progress and anti-pollution measures.9David Stradling and Richard Stradling, Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015), 146, 79,...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...modest political and economic independence. Serving as a key organizing ground for the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, Mound Bayou attracted interest from prominent civil rights leaders like Medgar Evers....
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...the process of being restored in a shop on Magazine Street to a portrait of MacArthur Award-winning artist John Scott, who lost his home in Katrina and died shortly afterward,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
..."the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom." Simply put, white Protestantism was not a strong force in the attempt to keep African Americans under the rule of...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...a succession of colonial governments. But Powell keeps his story anchored in the city itself, in the grid of streets that French engineers hoped would foster civic virtue and in...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...the lynching spurred African Americans in the city to stage a public protest led by the minister and activist Montrose W. Thornton. These essays bring to light stories of black...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...continued to do so long after Britain's thirteen colonies became the first United States. Finally, and provocatively, Strang's work demands at least two epistemological shifts. First, we must expand our...
Insistent Traces
...poem "Old Elementary." View poem text here. About Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Late Wife. Her books include Figure Studies, Pinion, and Pharoah,...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...dependent on stolen slave labor. Post-Reconstruction politics did more than rewrite the cause of the Civil War—it also remade the space of the South: Confederate memorial statues were erected, often...