Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...about by untraditional circumstances. It originated from the enslaved African community of Davis Bend, Mississippi, which was created, in the 1820s, by slave-plantation owner Joseph Davis as a "model" slave...
Naming Each Place
...learning to love his hometown, gay Black identity, the visibility of southern poets, and autobiography in poetry. Part 2: Trethewey and Brown discuss the place of region in writing and the...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP) was established in 2011 to honor and commemorate the two million captive Africans who died during the Middle Passage from Africa to the...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...turn out to offer the future southern Blacks had hoped for" (5). He never backtracks on that assertion, but he does make El Paso and its white citizens "southern" for...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...that eschew drinking, card playing, gambling, and other activities considered outside the realm of Christian behavior.6Charles Reagan Wilson, "Overview: Religion and the US South," Southern Spaces, March 16, 2004, https://southernspaces.org/2004/religion-and-us-south/....
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Pleistocene (Silver Bluff) and Holocene shorelines on Ossabaw split near its southern portion, with the Pleistocene trending north–south and the Holocene trending northeast–southwest. The modern shoreline, which formed only in...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Constitution. Earlier in his career, Suitts served as the executive director of the Southern Regional Council, vice president of the Southern Education Foundation, and executive producer and writer of "Will...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
Review Few issues roiled the waters of America and the South more so than temperance reform. In "the Alcoholic Republic"—William Rorabaugh's felicitous phrase—the question of prohibition divided and defined individuals...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...of lesbian-feminist communities in other urban centers in the United States. It is worth noting that this information contradicts received wisdom about the South, which holds that "things happen later"...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Work of Looking." Figure 6 (Top): Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, September 29, 2014. http://lookingatappalachia.org/south-carolina#/id/i9215392. Figure 7 (Middle): Brothers Ralph and Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, November 4,...