Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...expected of us in the academy. While "Making Art" is in some few ways similar to our New Orleans "summit," we, during this conference here at Emory University, want to...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...24,771, all the while having an almost equal number of Black and white residents. The guidebook published by Mississippi's Federal Writers' Project in 1937 romanticized Columbus as "a comfortable old-tree...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...a way to defund reform that might provide citizenship to anyone not lawfully in the US. Hostility to immigrants has a long tradition in the white South, but it remains a...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...the rights of libraries, not limit the scope of their fair use rights in any way, shape or form. Given the text says "Nothing in this section . . ....
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...of the Library of Congress. The eightieth anniversary of the arrests brought an unlikely collection of people to Scottsboro: a federal district judge from Detroit; a Broadway producer; a high...
Mapping Souths
...tradition, heritage, culture, and identity. Put another way, we are still reproducing and naturalizing the South as place in an age defined, according to one story (Jameson's postmodern one), by...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Scarecrow
"In a field I am the absence of field." — Mark Strand I. To Dorothy Everyone needs something to hang onto. It helps us keep the crows away. You...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...to see something less bound by our disciplines and imaginations. It is also a way to alternatively navigate the space of the anthropological field, here being Chauvin, Louisiana, a small...