Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...of Black Elected Officials (GABEO) insisted on a motorcade as they planned the first Moore's Ford lynching reenactment in 2005. Following a commemorative meeting at First African Baptist Church in...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...successful Kickstarter campaign. Fiend at Inner Recess studio, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph by Holly Hobbs, 2014. Holly Hobbs at the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014. Photograph by Jason...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...a far more complex and ambivalent depiction of the river's role than the more basic—and symbolic—representations generated by Stowe, Twain, Morrison, and others. For most African Americans crossing it, he...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...space. St. Thomas Street: the before photo. View shows street view prior to the demolition that cleared the area for the St. Thomas Housing Project. New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1939....
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...Chapel Hill. On an August evening in 1906, a white mob stormed the county jail in Salisbury, North Carolina, seeking six black prisoners indicted that day for the brutal murder...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...Molly Ivins, social satirist Dick Gregory, artist-writer Jules Feiffer, actor-chronicler Studs Terkel and the French philosopher and Christian anarchist Jacques Ellul likewise were drawn to his message of reconciliation. Not...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...Community with Music” About Nick Spitzer Nick Spitzer, folklorist and anthropologist, is known for his work with community-based cultures of the Gulf Coast, American vernacular music, musicians, craftspeople, documentary media,...
Editors
...State University Barbara Ladd, Emory University Theresa Lloyd, East Tennessee State University Valerie Loichot, Emory University Caroline Maun, Wayne State University Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University Mark McKnight, University of...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...inscape, or individuation, sounds so close to terror you'd confuse the two, as if the finest and the rarest blend would come with just a hint of fear or pain,...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...almo*]}*st all-white, roared their approval of Trump's condemnation of undocumented immigrants—a sentiment many Alabamians apparently share. In the state's latest poll, Trump is leading all other candidates by almo*]}*st 20...