Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Selections should engage with space and place, either through specific geographical sites or imagined geographies related to the U.S. South. All proposals should be sent to Series Editors Sarah Melton...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...Now, in the dark morning of 19 January 1943, a train was about to pass. John Yoshida was ready. Yoshida took off his overcoat and folded it neatly. He took...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...role in the Free Young Men's Benevolent Association, later known as the Colored Union Benevolent Association, which in 1870 established Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery (now the site of Walter Pierce...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...dramatizes much more extensively an even darker threat of rebellion. The novel attempts to prove the courage and necessary mastery of its southern planter hero by having him quell an...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the importance of the mfinda (forest) as a site of material and symbolic protection and peril. Moreover, he links stories of enslaved peoples' journeys and, at times, deaths in the...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...the links of her webpage—www.mbpratt.org—you will find more than I can tell you; you will find a place where you can join the action. I first met Minnie Bruce and...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown, 2001), Callaloo, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Warner/Aspect, 2000), Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...undocumented, darker-skinned Latinos. Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, ca. 1960–1980. Photograph by Bob Fitch. Courtesy of the Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Stanford University Libraries. Márquez captures the shift that occurred in the...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...to the site selected in 2014 for the Denmark Vesey sculpture, also evokes the shared place and separate pasts in "America's Most Historic City." The monument's placement in a garden...