Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...of Black Elected Officials (GABEO) insisted on a motorcade as they planned the first Moore's Ford lynching reenactment in 2005. Following a commemorative meeting at First African Baptist Church in...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...successful Kickstarter campaign. Fiend at Inner Recess studio, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph by Holly Hobbs, 2014. Holly Hobbs at the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014. Photograph by Jason...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...a far more complex and ambivalent depiction of the river's role than the more basic—and symbolic—representations generated by Stowe, Twain, Morrison, and others. For most African Americans crossing it, he...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...Chapel Hill. On an August evening in 1906, a white mob stormed the county jail in Salisbury, North Carolina, seeking six black prisoners indicted that day for the brutal murder...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...Community with Music” About Nick Spitzer Nick Spitzer, folklorist and anthropologist, is known for his work with community-based cultures of the Gulf Coast, American vernacular music, musicians, craftspeople, documentary media,...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...inscape, or individuation, sounds so close to terror you'd confuse the two, as if the finest and the rarest blend would come with just a hint of fear or pain,...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...almo*]}*st all-white, roared their approval of Trump's condemnation of undocumented immigrants—a sentiment many Alabamians apparently share. In the state's latest poll, Trump is leading all other candidates by almo*]}*st 20...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...published by Jo Ann Carrigan, Alan Kraut, Alexandra Stern, and Natalia Molina. The authority of US public health officials represented one of the most successful ways to construct and enforce...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...University dissertation into an exhilarating path-breaking first monograph of importance for several fields of study. Wise also makes clear the extent to which Percy's race and inherited class privilege made...
Brushes with War
...Reams' Station, Virginia, during the last stage of an arduous cavalry raid. Jameson was shipped to Andersonville Prison, the overcrowded, unsanitary, and disease-ridden POW stockade in southwest Georgia. By August,...