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...Solomon. Pink Triangle. Photograph by Flickr user Equality Michigan. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Poster from protest against a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 16, 2011. Image...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
...Part 3: Womack contrasts Posey’s stories of racial/ethnic interdependency with the contemporary reality in the Creek Confederacy About Craig Womack Dr. Craig Womack is an Oklahoma Creek-Cherokee Native American literary scholar,...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Than Death engendered a great deal of conversation among scholars in Black Studies. The buzz centered not just on its stellar cast of intellectuals but also on its formal qualities....
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...studies of river development in the United States, but excludes some important work pertaining to the Lower Mississippi River. Maybe most surprising is the omission of highly relevant monographs by...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...of the struggling college and sent more than two hundred men, women, and children into the cane fields of Louisiana. Most of the families torn apart in the sale could...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Christian, a most eminent minister of Jesus Christ. He left a disconsolate widow, but no children. His death was something remarkable. He was of a strong and robust make, and...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...day, many singings are held in Primitive Baptist churches, though Methodist and Missionary Baptist churches are frequently used. In addition to the larger conventions, which persist in a slightly altered...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...print. I went west. I moved to Port Townsend, Washington, and the locals thought I was truly from another country. The morning I hitchhiked into town, I ordered breakfast on...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...black phalanx. What is monument to their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones— water—lost. Now fish dart among their bones, and we listen for what the waves...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...past. Florida (62 percent), Texas (56 percent), Alabama (54 percent), Arkansas (53 percent), and Tennessee (53 percent) followed. In Georgia, South Carolina, and West Virginia, low-income students in each state...