Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...“Nuevo South” as an important political economy and historical framework for understanding racial formations. As the field has continued to grow, however, new works are bringing a critical and longer...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...of seam allowances to both the concave and convex parts of the quilt pattern results in two curved edges that no longer match. The maker could still place the templates...
A City Divided
...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...job-training and long-term job placement have much higher degrees of success. The route an inmate takes at the time of release often depends on the prison in which he or...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Confederates and northerners sought to claim the popular song and invest it with different nationalistic and local meanings. Originally written as a minstrel song expressing an ambivalent longing for the...
The Border South
...complexity of life on the border. The idea of a border depends in large measure on a "closed" South, one sealed by a definitive geography or polity. Along the border...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...simpler minds of black women were also less burdened by disease-producing anxieties than white women, as long as masters supplied basic needs. Following on the work of historians such as...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...scenes of troubling revolution. Near its end, Swallow Barn tells the story of the rebellious slave Ned. After a long period of incorrigible behavior, he finally becomes a loyal defender...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...nabs under her belt 500 gallon vats--peanut butter stink so strong the smell lasts a lifetime and more crackers flying by ‘bout ninety miles per pull and pack ten thirty,...