Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...America writ large: did the “Mississippi Plan” become the American way? Part 4: Dr. Crespino analyzes the role of the scapegoat metaphor of Mississippi as “innocent victim” in segregationist politics Part...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...of The Florida Guide, part of an "American Guide" series designed to "hold up a mirror to America." The gig provided her with the opportunity to sharpen her ethnographic game,...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...candidate: "These people aren't against brown or Black people. They just don't like the way Democrats are running the country."10Michael H. Keller and David D. Kirkpatrick, "Their America Is Vanishing....
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and James Alexander Dun, Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). Virginia slaveholders became apprehensive about black...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...people had "withdrawn from the Union known as 'the United States of America,' and henceforth ceases to be one of said United States, and is, and of right ought to...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...in the Lowcountry than in other parts of America,” so they remain off stage for the most part, “although they formed a part of the overall disease matrix.” With yellow...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...analyses. Just as the introduction begins with Ellington's "Suite," the following chapter, "New Orleans, America, Music," uses the compilation album Dear New Orleans (released in August 2010 to commemorate the...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...black abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond alongside the image. Taken from an 1862 abolitionist speech, "The Negroes In the United States of America," Remond's quotation illustrates the centrality of slave labor...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...cities and towns. They are visible in Georgian-style post offices, and in huge train station murals splashed with the autumnal colors of rustic America bringing in the crop. The Great...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...routes are depicted by the quilting lines connecting Africa and the United States. —Gwen Magee A slave ship in full sail splitting the waters of the Atlantic evokes the Middle...