Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...long-form interpretive and critical pieces result from extended scholarly engagement with a topic, frequently breaking new ground in critical regional studies, African American, Native, and American Studies, women's and gender...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...temporarily and inadequately—corners of respite from the indignities of Jim Crow. Pavilion scene, Carr's Beach, Maryland, July, 1956. Used with permission from WANN Radio Station Records, Archives Center, National Museum...
Montevallo's Anagama
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The Klan Tableau
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Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Christian Anti-Jewish Party had circulated hate materials throughout Atlanta from the early 1950s. Only three months before the bombing, in July 1958, a group of protesters had demonstrated outside the...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...do it. That is, if English departments and Africana departments and programs take seriously our vision here, our institutions of higher education will broadly serve our nation and become stronger...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of minutes, the chaotic scene turned deadly. Steps away from his mother, a thirteen year-old-white boy lay motionless on the ground, bleeding profusely from the head. A few hours later,...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...so did their applications. PCBs were never sold directly to consumers, but consumers bought and accumulated them unwittingly, since they could be found not only in products ranging from electronics...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...changes, along with newly revamped farms and numerous urban gardens, have contributed to a much-needed increase in the country's food supply since the early 1990s.11Lucy Martín, "Transforming the Cuban Countryside:...
The Carolina Piedmont
...testify to the flowering of its folk culture. The patriarchal family structure nested within a social structure that was loosely hierarchical, swayed by the authority and example of leading men...