Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...and western history, and whiteness studies. As the author notes in his conclusion, Fighting Their Own Battles is important because black-brown relations (as well as their relations with whites) continue...
Sonic Zora in Florida
Songs Cover the Landscape Yet another program housed under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Federal Writers Project (FWP), invited Zora Neale Hurston in 1938 to join the editorial staff...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...survey map by Western High School and Washington Technical Institute volunteers, this obelisk was previously located in the far northeastern section of Section 10 of the Female Union Band Society...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...& A. Topics include how Lawrence’s correspondence inform her writing Acknowledgements Many thanks to Northwestern State University of Louisiana's Watson Memorial Library Cammie G. Henry Research Center for the materials from...
The Dirt Eaters
...lay on Great- grandma's grave when I was small. "Most cultures have passed through a phase of earth- eating most pre valent today among rural Southern Black women." Geo Phagy:...
Frank Willis
...called "civic," the things you had to know. Today in some way I somehow care that Frank Willis lives with his mother, without employ, was arrested for stealing a $12...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...today's Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—were central to early American knowledge production. At first glance the image appears to be a familiar allegory of Europe's conquest of the Americas. It...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Arkansas Press, 2011), 81; "Hot Springs Would Secede," Today 3 (1934): 23. What explains this reversal? For one, it appears that clinic personnel had little appetite for prolonged conflict with...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...