Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignity for old or young. "Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till," Reed writes, "was murdered in nearby Mississippi on a family visit from Chicago in 1955 because he unknowingly violated a local rule...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...feeding runaways frequently required theft, which risked penalties ranging from a whipping to sale. Confrontations between slaves and runaways were often confrontations between neighbors and fugitive strangers. Indeed, plantation records,...
Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas, 1943
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...between the two men. Both Campbell and Marlette denied any connection between the real and imaginary characters under the black hat. In his writing and in public discourse, Campbell could...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...that informed his fiction, the history that underlies Darktown, and the uses of history and fiction in understanding place and time. Interview About the Interviewer Joseph Crespino is Jimmy Carter Professor of...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...the mountain and now at the top edge, was the familiar jutting rock of Fallam Point. "Is Montefalco totally gone?" Earl Dotter, Oldhouse Branch Refuse Valley Fill Impoundment, Enterprise Mining...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...or more precisely the sense of feeling “more at home” with specific terms was useful in coming to an understanding of the way in which our use of language is...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...first publication, a portfolio entitled 14 Pictures, fifteen images from William Eggleston's Guide, and seven additional images taken between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s. All are dye-transfer prints, their...