Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986 (2003). About Brett Gadsden Brett Gadsden is assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University. He received his PhD in history from Northwestern University....
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...engaging in rabid pro-lynching race-baiting to stamp down the cross-racial alliances created by the Fusionists in North Carolina, the coalition between the Republican and Populists Parties that in previous elections...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...racist or a Republican. The currency remains DIY culture, and while you can buy other people's creativity and aesthetic sensibility, nothing is as cool as cultivating your own. While the...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...Republicans who loved his promise to "bring back coal." But they recognize too that there has been no support for the strike coming from the right, no GOP politicians standing...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...to his father, Charles Teney, to complete the manumission process in 1827, freeing his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. Maryland Republican, March 26, 1814, 3. The article also ran in the April...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...a cultural backlash against the political gains of African Americans, women, and Chicanos at the state and national level. Mellard's account does not consider how the performance of machismo can...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
The New Orleans-based Amistad Research Center is the nation's oldest, largest, and most comprehensive independent archive specializing in African American history and culture. For the first time in its history,...
The Border South
...shape these states increasingly were understood and understood themselves as on the border. They contained various sub regions and economies, but all allowed and, indeed, promoted slavery. Virginia, for example,...
When the Border Crossed Me
...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...