The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...a different way. At the University of Georgia, a mob greeted Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter when they entered in 1961. A year later, two civilians died when James Meredith...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...branches and watch the exhausted laborers from the Burgreen Construction Company sit down in the shade, unwrapping their ham and salami and popping open their thermoses. Apparently, they too are...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...and power and has affected efforts to alleviate racial and class inequality for generations. What more, I sometimes wonder, is there to say? Among the many contributions of Karl Hagstrom...
The State House Aflame 1833
...different. It's twelve noon, and the assembly's just adjourned; the State House is aflame, and water won't reach the heights a slave can. Sam's a bondsman. The roof, the roof,...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...I have a different perspective because I know that those people lost a lot when that road went through there. Those people that owned that property lost a lot and...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Removal are far-reaching: to remove entire cultures from their home places is to remove and forever change many different though overlapping national literatures. Today, the majority of Native writers affiliated...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...York. He is author of Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (New York: NYU Press, 2007), Black Gay Men (New York: NYU Press, 2001), and...
Mapping Souths
...not any one smile," he wrote, "to think of the Ohio River and the Potomac being such grand national barriers as must . . . constitute of necessity the nations...
Whiskey and Geography
...can credit the Ulster immigrants for helping introduce the tradition to America. Through their influence, whiskey making became commonplace everywhere in the new colony, particularly on the frontier. Frenchman Marquis...