"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...the anger; see what actions we must take in our own lives, where we live every day, to bring about social justice. In welcoming her tonight, I dare to borrow...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...was "less deep" but because conditions differed so greatly between the sections" (101). Lynching Beyond Dixie also has the laudable effect of bringing otherwise forgotten lives back into the historical narrative....
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...has Toklas say) she grew up. Then to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for college, to Baltimore for medical school, then back to the Paris where she had lived with her family as...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...resort to an ultimate solution, the disrespect for life, the ruination of both mens' lives, the danger to family and friends. Jazz Funeral for Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen The day...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...a "horror show" at the expense of portraying the inner lives of slaves and the relationships they forged under totalitarian circumstances, but in doing so it does not ally itself...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...figure who lived in a realm beyond reach and is now sealed away in an otherworld. What could be more detached and isolated from the lived history of Jim Crow...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...he wishes to perform adequately to the subject he is portraying. That self-performance returns in his and Layla's video segment, with its detailing of the students' lives. Taken all together,...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...trends related to migration, de-industrialization, the rise of the service economy, the importance of tourism, race relations, violence, and working-class struggles. To this end, we welcome full panels on a...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...of the oral history program at the University of North Texas. A historian of the American civil rights movement, he directed the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...