How I Shed My Skin
...the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and received a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation; Dream Boy, winner of the American Library Association GLBT Award for Literature (the...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
Review Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 17–May 13, 2007 ARC/ Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France, June 20–September 9, 2007 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...York: Oxford University Press, 1979) George Rawick, From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1972); Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...hit African Americans especially hard. Widespread poverty for generations following Reconstruction exposed hundreds of thousands of poor, rural southerners to hookworm infection and pellagra. By the end of the nineteenth...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...of the national self into its ‘southern other’” Part 5: Greeson discusses the focus of national writers on the internal “Plantation South” About Jennifer Rae Greeson received her PhD in American...