The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...head nurse-washwoman and mammy. We all thought she was one of the best niggers [sic] ever born. And we think so yet. She couldn't have loved her own children any...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...the city because, according to a woman Sibley knew, "'Hit's too fur to walk and cars jiggle you so bad.'"13Sibley, A Place Called Sweet Apple, 57-58; Sibley, Tokens of Myself, 15. (This...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
Our Backward Revolution
...movement has proved successful in carrying out its long-term strategy of promoting libertarian ideas and policies into the mainstream, ideas once dismissed as the work of Ayn Rand cranks and...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...(June 2010): 733-765; "A Resolution to encourage Enlistments and to promote the Efficiency of the military Forces of the United States," Bills and Resolutions, U.S. Senate, S.R. 82, 38th Congress,...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...(103). This multi-media interplay is a relatively new convention for academic writing. Here, old-school New Historicist methods comingle with explications of computer code and user interface to demonstrate how digital...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...for best film, and Quvenzhané Wallis, his spunky, firebreathing star, may be crowned best actress. In the movie she plays the part of one of Louisiana's Katrina-surviving, throwaway children, but...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of John A. Lomax (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996); Szwed, Alan Lomax. "The best pay-dirt I struck in Louisiana," he recalled, "was a young woman who worked in a...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...there as volunteers.3The term is taken from what is arguably the most-cited manifesto of lesbian feminism, "Women Identified Woman," written by the Radicalesbians, first distributed as a "position paper" at...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...analysis draws on archival documents, promotional materials, newspapers, photographs, and interviews to explore how these shows got on and stayed on the air and what they meant to their audiences....