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...Freedom Ride asks, "What color is an immigrant?" Use a colon after formal introductory phrases such as thus or the following, or for quotations longer than a sentence. As for...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...should have access to free comprehensive health care. And—supporting the right of LGBT people to choose same-sex marriage, if we choose to, is a way to show solidarity with millions...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...further fueled anti-Mexican sentiment in the borderlands. Anglo Texans viewed refugees of the Mexican Revolution—mostly poor, dark-skinned, working class people—as potential enemies whom they felt free to attack. These changing...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...touched on these questions elsewhere, in Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), for example, but he does not address them in this book. For...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Courtesy of Steve Bransford. Buck dancing was popularized in America by minstrel performers in the nineteenth century. The International Encyclopedia of Dance explains, "The old-style African-American buck dance consists essentially...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...only one high school to attend, Lemon Street High, in downtown Marietta, the county seat. Cobb County adopted "Freedom of Choice" in 1965, but the county's high schools did not...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...not nor has it ever been a predominant concern of most southern gospel songs or groups" (101). Cover of Walter B. Seale and Adger M. Pace's "Wake Up!! America and...
The Black Belt
...decline. What had been one of America's richest and most politically powerful regions became one of its poorest. In the 1950s and 1960s, long-oppressed African American residents of the Alabama...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...novel. For a powerfully written and argued history of the role of violence and force in the abolitionist movement, read Kellie Carter Jackson's Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the...