How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...excerpt) Part 5: Contrasts Walker’s location in a black neighborhood in Jackson with Welty’s location in a white neighborhood 3.6 miles away Part 6: Gwin locates Anne Moody’s work within the...
Cajun South Louisiana
...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...assemblage of natural communities that share a large majority of their species and ecological dynamics, share similar environmental conditions, and interact ecologically in ways that are critical for their long-term...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...of freed slaves as an opportunity for textile manufacturers to "organize at our own doors a colony—so to speak—that will be worth more to us than any of England's most...
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...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...the Adolph Friedlander Company, Hamburg, Germany, ca. 1880. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. As the objects of Bailey, Waters, and Julien spill out of conventional "frames"...
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
...in much the same 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...