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...
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...
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...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...of the striking miners are African American, and he felt a strong spirit of solidarity across racial lines. The miners Dixon spoke with were upbeat, ready to keep fighting for...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Disfarmer: The Heber Springs Portraits, 1939–1946 (Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976); Ann Hawthorne, The Picture Man: Photographs by Paul Buchanan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993); David Moltke-Hansen,...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 113. The trail is covered in fallen leaves and enshrouded by the endless overhang of trees transitioning from late...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Maps of Olympic Ring in downtown Atlanta, 1996 Atlanta Games The Centennial Summer Olympic Games opened on the evening of Friday, July 19, 1996, at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Stadium (now...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Theater," (M.H.P. thesis, University of Georgia, 1999), 11-19. Hollingshead's difficulty in securing first-run films continued to be a common complaint of drive-in operators. Hollingshead's drive-in established some basic parameters for...