Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...island. In addition to ongoing environmental study, extensive archaeological research has occurred at St. Catherines with regard to Native American settlements, the Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale, and...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001). This is particularly important with "southern" local color since it was largely written for and consumed by...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and from 1964 to 1975, worked as a field representative for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of voter registration, school desegregation, and economic development in the US South....
Local Color
...often used dialect to achieve less patronizing, more flexible versions of life in community. African American men and women also wrote about a racialized social politics (Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Paul...
Whiskey and Geography
...de Chastelleaux observed that it was the only drink served in the American backcountry.1David Hackett-Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 729. In...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...entrevistadora y el entrevistado Bridgette W. Gunnels is Associate Professor of Spanish at Emory University and a scholar in Latin American literature from the twentieth century, in all forms, with...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)....
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...zero for understanding working-class support for a billionaire who claimed to care about the "forgotten people" of America. This signposting allowed for an evasion of any deep analysis of racism...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...