A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...period of rising conservative political power, have grudgingly acknowledgeed African American history. To the extent that we have a dominant narrative now, it consists of the 'many voices and many...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...ceremony has been held; N = Ports with neither a marker nor a ceremony. Each MPCPMP ceremony and marker is unique. In our initial presentation to local participants in the...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...1980. Padilla trabajó muchos años en varios puestos en el sistema universitario en los Estados Unidos, como Ohio State University, Bowdoin College y el Instituto de Humanidades de la NYU,...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...NAACP leader Albert E. Perry, met successful resistance by armed African American defenders, many of them veterans, through "disciplined gunfire."5Robert Franklin Williams, Negroes with Guns (Detroit: Wayne State University Press,...
Remnants of Flannery
...way that the writing of Tennessee Williams impacted my plays."8Ibid. For Drago, O'Connor addressed "reality in a detailed and truthful way."9Ibid. Elsewhere, Drago has commented on the "meditative qualities" of...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...the list does not offer any way of discriminating between more and less effective potential solutions, inviting the interpretation (which the authors surely would not endorse) that carpooling and buying...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...so many other entities, Bourbon Street recovered with little if any federal aid and zero charitable assistance. Bourbon Street was not only New Orleans's most successful invention, it was also...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...the narrative he crafts. He writes: "As for me, [the book is] something of a memoir. In many ways, John and Bill and I have lived the same life, in...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America (New York: Palgrave, 2002), 7-8. Examinations of the ways that the imagined South has been, and is, constituted through its...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user BEV Norton. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, Detail of General Oglethorpe Statue, Savannah, Georgia, February 12, 2010. Photograph...