Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of the Arkansas Delta and New Orleans, moved back to the South where he grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas,and the Crescent City. Reed attended college in Chapel Hill, North...
Anniversary
...riots where the Greyhound station's been made a museum of itself, what was reflected now etched on the windows, the froth of clubs and chains, even rakes, over the Freedom...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008) and Micki McElya, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...developments that led to federal marijuana legislation in 1937.4For prominent examples, see Howard Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (New York: Free Press, 1963); Alfred Ray Lindesmith, The...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...even know that people elsewhere all over the country was suffering from want." —Donald Harington’s “Vance Randolph” character in Butterfly Weed1Donald Harington, Butterfly Weed (New Milford, CT: The Toby Press,...
Seneca Quarry
...couldn't pay back. The quarry's bankruptcy in 1876 helped bring down the Freedman's Bank, wiping out the savings of some 400,000 freed slaves and exacerbating poverty among African Americans for...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...standpoint, what is most striking is not the monolithic character of the slave "community," but its plurality. Scholars such as Deborah Gray White, Brenda Stevenson, Michael Johnson, and Michael Gomez...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...had the nation's lowest white voting percentages for Obama.7Stephen Ansolabehere, Nathaniel Persily, and Charles Stewart III, "Race, Region, and Vote Choice in the 2008 Election: Implications for the Future of...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...A/C. I sat on a stool, he reclined in an electric wheelchair. It was my first visit with him. He recounted more to me, of his tours in World War...