The US South and the 2008 Election
...both in the United States and Great Britain. The story of Sunbelt conservatism has in many ways been this struggle between the movement's ego and its id, between the thoughtful...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (University Press of Mississippi, 1995), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...can run but you can’t hide forever!” America, we must respect and uphold “The Rule of Law.” Directions From Atlanta: Take I-20 East Exit 82 at Conyers-Athens (Highway 138). Turn...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...North Carolina," was one of the earliest studies of regional variations in American quiltmaking traditions. Between 1983 and 1985, Horton worked with the McKissick Museum at the University of South...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...relationship between Native Studies and the American South. Why, then, do Indians continue to be mostly absent from the critical and institutional conversations about southern literature? In a 1991 study...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...a broad public discussion about slavery and race in American history and in contemporary America as well. By now most realize that this is not easy and, at the same...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...