Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
...spending the 2012–2013 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. This presentation is drawn from his book project, Sounding...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF), an outgrowth of the New Deal era's Southern Conference for Human Welfare. They worked as SCEF organizers out of Louisville on a comprehensive civil rights...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...long been described with an array of debasing superlatives, consistently occupying the proverbial bottom rung of the ladder in our national obsession with rankings. Writing in 1931, H. L. Mencken...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...the ability to think, to ascertain available courses of action, and to then act in one's best interest. When that interest runs counter to that of one's captors—who here wanted...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the "peculiar institution" and often prompted observers to come to terms with their own attitudes toward the human cargo they witnessed. It was a trip on the Ohio in 1841...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...a brick wall a hundred years later, I can make out Cuba Libre! and Remember the Maine! I don't remember the Maine, only that a Cuba Libre is made of rum, Coke, and lime....
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...a tradition. We heard blues on Beale Street and took part in lectures and discussions in Oxford, Mississippi, before visiting with racial reconciliation leaders in Jackson and the Delta. Ruth...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...spaces in the D.C. area, and yet was reelected to Congress for his conservative Republican values. Eventually, he was caught again and run out of office. We thought about Aaron...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...A Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 14. He argues that "in Mississippi, spatial configurations—the unique characteristics of a rural landscape—forged distinct human interactions, movements, and sites,"...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynching for the state (6). Discrimination sign, Dimmitt, Texas, 1949. Photograph by Russell Werner Lee. Courtesy of Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. If mobs...