Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...to the proposed mammy memorial in Washington DC, and the mammy figure within Lost Cause discourse. About Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...violence, and the challenges we face as a nation continuously confronted with difference. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi....
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...and throughout the 1970s, several white critics complained that African American music had lost its southern grit. In particular, the steady decline of the Memphis-based recording label, Stax, symbolized for...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...sceptre, In one hand he holds the rod— In the other hand the Scripture, And says that he's a man of God. —Joshua McCarter Simpson Joshua McCarter Simpson, ca. 1840–1876....
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Americans use the centennial to establish “the justice and equality which were the dream of the founding fathers and . . . the inalienable rights of every American citizen.” Many...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...empire abolished slavery. It seemed to be an era of emancipation. Matthew Karp's This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy joins a chorus of scholarship...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...with Eddie Bo Part 5: Spitzer offers an interview with Allen Toussaint, speaking to the role of musical creativity following Hurricane Katrina Part 6: Spitzer discusses the meaning of Mardi Gras following...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...of our students spoke to children at the Tutwiler Community Center, which offers year-round activities for African American kids. Teachers brought out maps and the children tried to locate Northern...
Writing Appalachia
...the American Consciousness, 1870–1920 (1978). In navigating these turbulent waters, we also had to ask ourselves what story of the region we wanted to tell. In answering this question, we...