Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...practices of their African ancestors over the course of three centuries, even amid the ruptures imposed by enslavement and Protestant Christianity. They remained in dialogue with their homelands through the...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...conflict from the pre-colonial period to the twenty-first century. Possible topics include, but are not limited to Redistricting and voting patterns Effects of demographic shifts in urban, suburban, and rural...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...with the geographies of: historical memory and memorialization economic inequality and everyday precarity political boundaries (redistricting, voter suppression) forced migration, slavery, and human trafficking racial violence, hate crimes LGBTQ+ perspectives,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...that roars, runs, and barks—for those of you from parts other than rural eastern Oklahoma). One day in his Weleetka High School class, everyone stopped paying attention to the teacher...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...or alternate name for the Tombigbee River, which runs through present-day Mississippi and Alabama.2Arthur S. Marks, "Joining the Past to the Present: William Rush's Emblematic Statuary at Fairmount," Proceedings of...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...human identity. Yet the narratives actually remind us how deeply slaves "belonged" to the South – not only in the horrifying legal sense but also in terms of their own...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...for slaves in the Deep South, slaves became more likely to run away. Border slave-owners and slaves made bargains that mitigated the mutual threats of southward sale and northward escape....
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...systems throughout the country would be affected by the historic ruling. It could be persuasively argued that Brown was the most important legal principle to be shaped by the Supreme...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...