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...salt mackerel. The next morning my fever broke and the fish was all cooked. Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 ©...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Cover of Booker T. Washington's A New Negro for a New Century (Chicago: American Publishing House, 1900). Campney's discussion of black resistance challenges notions offered by some scholars that it...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...2012, http://www.adammandelman.net/2012/06/01/borderlands. American Energy explains the Gulf Coast through another set of geographical dilemmas: between site and situation8See Peirce Lewis, New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape (Chicago: Center for...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Brooks' classic couplet, "The lariat lynch-wish I deplored/The loveliest lynchee was our Lord."11Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock, Fall 1957," in The Bean Eaters (New...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...as a hate crime. As the Chicago Tribune reported, McMillian was "one of the first viable, openly gay" candidates in the state. On February 7, 2013, one hundred forty-eight years after the...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...use advocates. Below is a "score card" of the results of the ruling written by Matthew Sag, an Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University of Chicago who is an expert...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Deltans migrated to Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles—anywhere offering hope for a better life. Most counties in the Delta have lost more than half of their population in the last...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...the Bridge, Senator Clinton's affirmation of endurance and persistence—"the march is not over"—became a moment of unintended caricature.8Dahleen Glanton and Mike Dorning, "Clinton, Obama Commemorate Selma Anniversary," Chicago Tribune, March...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Seaberg holds up the reel of J.B. Lenoir footage she and her husband shot in Chicago in 1965. The Soul of a Man, 2003. In the documentary tradition, archival footage...