Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...And he is right that the issue of school desegregation efforts after the 1964 Civil Rights Act is a near perfect terrain for fully understanding the rifts in the old civil...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...B. Russell professor in American History, Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies, and the Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. His...
Infant gravesites, Japanese American concentration camp cemetery, Rohwer, Arkansas, 2004
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...for multicultural societies. Is the US South well along the path of desegregating its history? African American history is increasingly prominent in museums, educational institutions, and public rituals, although there...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...weight on one leg before a setting/rising sun—reminding me how careless it seems that the suns of so many have set while mine will rise again. The view of the...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Cannot Do in a Time of Pandemic," Scientific American, February 2, 2021, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-science-can-and-cannot-do-in-a-time-of-pandemic/. Sports celebrities and other influencers joined in; some publicly declined vaccinations for spurious or unspoken reasons. In...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...of Joan E. Biren and the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History. From left to right: Ginny Berson, Susan Baker (not a collective member), Coletta Reid (standing), Rita Mae Brown,...