Shreveport, Louisiana images
Shreveport, Louisiana: Landscaping, El Dorado Casino Resort Today, the downtown and waterfront areas, bustle with tourist, most of whom gamble at one of several riverboat casinos. Artist's Rendering of RiverView...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...among others, that were relatively tolerant of queer cultures; and he drew from the idiom of his day to write about and express homoerotic desire in his diaries, letters, poetry,...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship and Georgia State University's Cities Initiative and the Department of Geosciences invite proposals for presentations at the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. The day-long...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...suggested the reality of everyday slave life but were less willing to focus on the less pleasant aspects of slave/master relationships. Most visitors thought of slavery and slaveholding in very...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...Chapel Hill. On an August evening in 1906, a white mob stormed the county jail in Salisbury, North Carolina, seeking six black prisoners indicted that day for the brutal murder...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Wilson Harris), law and literature (Colin Dayan), ethnographic history (Richard Price), object relation theory and new materialism, and ecocriticism. Her rich archive is composed of published literary texts, manuscripts, non-written...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...the anger; see what actions we must take in our own lives, where we live every day, to bring about social justice. In welcoming her tonight, I dare to borrow...
Negotiating Black Identities
...Dr. Lacy compares the everyday experiences of Blacks in two suburban communities, highlighting Black social organizations Part 6: Dr. Lacy highlights the changing mission of an elite Black social organization...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...
J-Mill on Regulating
J-Mill [Jeremy Miller]. 1994. "Regulatin' and Mic Checkin'." The Source 54, Mar., 24. [excerpt] "In Miami, DJing has been going strong since the early days of hip-hop, but a...