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Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (2007) as well as No Ordinary Sacrifice: New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South, 1917–1929 (forthcoming). She is also coediting (with...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...to institutions with long histories of community-building through arts activism and education. In this spirit, we hosted one of our first LiFT gatherings in the Hammonds House Museum. Founded in 1988, the Hammonds House...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...E. Dydo with William Rice, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-34 [Evanston IL: Northwestern UP, 2003], 579 n. 48). That it was something between a clerical error and congressional...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...the oral history interviews for the book? Themes of spirituality, sexual fluidity, nomenclature, and queerness (9:08). Part Four Johnson acknowledges several women in his oral history project who have helped...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...September 11, 1961. Screenshot courtesy of Eric Solomon. Bottom, Rainbow crosswalks, corner of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2017. Photograph by Eric Solomon. Courtesy of Eric Solomon....
Mississippi: State of Confession
...for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). As Mississippian Ellie Dahmer stated about the 1966 assassination of her husband and local National Association for the...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
...spirituals, we was named the Blue Moon Gospel Singers. Well, and then after that we quit for a while and sooner or later started back, and it was the Bussey...
Deep Ellum Blues
...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v. Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...