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Regions of Alabama
...PhD 1965). He has served as the President of the Southern Historical Society (2003-2004) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the new Online Encyclopedia of Alabama. Prof. Flynt has actively...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...advertised his cleaning and repair service: "Bring in your sewing machines and have them made good as new." The fabric on the back of the Tulip quilt is a fine...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...between 1910 and 1920 (6). Mexican refugees going to Marfa, Texas, ca. 1910–1915. Photograph by Bain News Service. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2014695398. Villanueva's...
Brushes with War
...their own soil. Michael D. Fay at work at a big airbase called TQ (Al-Taqaddum), Iraq, March 2006. Photograph courtesy of the artist. Life in Camp, Part...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...airplane and boat suggest parallel devotional differences between Miami's mostly lower-class "Little Haiti" and various middle- and upper-class suburban enclaves. Haitians in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods outside of Miami (such...
Mississippi Delta
...unknown creator. Bottom, African-American tenant cabin, Armstrong Plantation, Mississippi, 1934. Photograph by unknown creator. Both photographs courtesy of Mississippi State University Libraries, Special Collections Department, University Archives, Cooperative Extension Service Photographs,...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...Bone, 2010. In several scenes set in the interior of the family’s home, Ree, her siblings, and their mother carry on ordinary activities while gospel tunes and public service announcements...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...electric chair. In Murder on Shades Mountain, Melanie S. Morrison recovers the Peterson case from the shadow of Scottsboro—arguably the most significant and certainly the most chronicled miscarriage of justice...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...—David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (When I Put My Hands on Your Body), 1990 “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity,...