Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...formerly been. Louisiana, like Cuba, also experienced the "same cycle of expansion and intensification of slavery after 1800 which had occurred in Saint-Domingue between 1750 and 1794," and many planters,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...to accompany the text of Paul Laurence Dunbar's dialect poem "Hunting Song." Photograph by Major Robert Russa Moton. Moton was one of only two African American members of the Hampton...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Placing the industry's present in dialogue with its past, the case of Scott County, Mississippi, enables us to see more clearly how the ongoing denigration of blackness—in other words, the...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Mexican agricultural workers in Brownfield. Weathers's experiences in Mary Ellen's Top Hat reveal that, in facilitating cross-racial dialogue, racially integrated gay bars in San Antonio were potential sites of racial...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...dialogue with leading feminist, race, and theological scholars in the 1970s and 1980s, and it becomes evident that the subject of our documentary has more stories than we could ever...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...So why don't you kindly turn your dial up a little bit and stay around with us for the next hour, cause we’ve got Monroe, Big Red, Ol' Sidro L.C.,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...and you have been praised by interviewers and reviewers for the authenticity of your dialogue. So it must have felt like a risk to choose for the central perspective of...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...a joyous coming to voice, but Faulkner's fiction seems destined to remain a generative place of productive dialogue about race and racism.15Werner, "Minstrel Nightmares." In this still relevant essay from...
Local Color
...are "colored" by regionally defined characters, settings, folkways, and dialects. The paradox, and thus the richness, of this often discounted form lies in the tension between local and national that...
"Aint that Something?"
...You're worser than me" (2), and "they's beer and pop in the cooler" (94), the dialogue doesn't make the characters sound uneducated. Instead, the vernacular dialect sounds natural and authentic,...