The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Wilson's Patriotic Gore (1962), studies of the literature of the Civil War have paid far more attention to the North. Hutchison seeks to rescue the Confederacy's literature—its poems, songs, literary...
The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...its location, provided ample exposure to "the vagaries of human personality."15Habit of Being, xii. Folks of all walks and talks made their way to Milledgeville, and when she wasn't actively...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...III and Paige Knight. Detail of stereograph. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. The staged image includes a passbook from the New Orleans Gas Works...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
Welcoming Comment from Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Welcoming Comment, 2014. About the Speaker Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (Native Guard, Mariner Books, 2006) and former poet laureate of...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...furniture in the sitting room included, among other items, a walnut writing table, two bookcases with glass doors, one lot of about a hundred books "including cyclopedias and books of...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...advocate of polygenesis and the racial inferiority of blacks. Morton, of Philadelphia, was an avid skull collector who proved to his satisfaction that blacks had smaller skulls than whites and...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...of President Obama's administration, and even terrorist attacks. This episode highlights the panic such epidemics still provoke, and the resultant mischaracterizations of place, or nationality, as equivalent with culpability. John...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
John McWilliams, Hampton Plantation, McClellanville, South Carolina, 1973. In the early 1970s, John was teaching photography at Georgia State University when we discovered McClellanville through Robert Frank’s photograph “Barber shop...