Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...agrees that "Indian place names offer perhaps the most enduring clue to how Indians conceived their world" (45). Yet, without citing an example, Dubcovsky concludes that the "Indian place names...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...African Americans, in his neighborhood, saying that Mullins got what he deserved and that others would get the same ("Given 150 Lashes," "Overseer Killed: Conspiracy Formed by Negro Laborers to...
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...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...you don't believe that, do you? Mama says you can tell them by the way they never have to go to the toilet, and that's where he's been. Look down...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...to desegregated schools. The Gray Commission's proposals implied that it would preserve only virtual segregation, not total segregation—an approach that many Virginia politicians defiantly opposed.53Joseph J. Thorndike, "'The Sometimes Sordid...
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...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity,...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...public domain. As the Indian government's recent efforts to regulate that country's maps makes clear, maps are not neutral documents. A declaration form for entry into India distributed to passengers...
Our Backward Revolution
...oblivious to the role of the wealthy interests that have profited from an economy that has shifted wealth from labor to capital—all reinforced by changes in “tax reform” that lowered...
Genres of Southern Literature
...during the time, what we see is that the South's race-based institution of slavery was the driving force behind literary production. A southern slavocracy, sectionalist and ultimately nationalist, is what...