"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...with that section of the country. In The Quadrupeds of North America, John James Audubon writes that the opossum was by no means confined to southern states, particularly during the...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...University Press, 2004) and Kay Mills, Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004). We know very little about what was aired on...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Kindaisen to Tairyoku, Jinko, 188. He warned that the birth rate of Japanese women in Korea was “far below” that of local women and reiterated the common eugenic argument that...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...1960 and 1980, archival evidence shows that cruising narratives played a powerful role in that identification. At the same time, these narratives also show that queer territorialization in Houston was...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...major battles and the armies that fought them: The fact that African American slaves were bought and sold in Atlanta and were used to build earthen fortifications that encircled the...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...the white male opponents by suggesting that their shared traits, beliefs, and traditions accounted for a common bravery in battle and a sense of common white Americanness that surged in...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...and implicit in that answer is the assertion that a writer such as Nordan is not simply mimicking a curious literary trick or appropriating a style that he found appealing....
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...fathers to sons and in the supposedly free exchange of affectional ties between a male and female of his choice—becomes the mythically revered privilege of a free and freed community"...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...where to stand. Say "race," the photographer croons. I'm in blackface again when the flash freezes us. My father's white, I tell them, and rural. You don't hate the south? they ask. You don't hate...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...That notion was precisely what had stoked the greatest fears of the Charleston "Lynch men": the possibility that abolitionist tracts might incite violent slave uprisings.12Wyly-Jones, "A New Look," 1. William...