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
...she is incarcerated, the recommendations of the parole board, or the number of open beds at the local re-entry facility. 92% of prisoners in Alabama are male, so most of...
Welcome!
...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...States is here generally broken into a number of subgenres of rap and bounce, though the definitions and boundaries of these categories are fluid and often change according to whom...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...number of short pieces are joined to augment the width, and one of these has a small irregular patch, suggesting mending of some previous damage. The backing was still too...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...about runaway slaves. While most databases do not yet provide features like transcripts, there are a number of useful tools available for researchers and students. UNCG has created the Digital...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Rap,” “discussion with Florynce Kennedy and Diane Schulder,” June 27, 1971, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. The SCLC collection contains audio recordings of these radio programs, transcripts of aired interviews,...
Consolation
...that January night, 1957, a gun in your side, knowing you didn't do a thing, knowing the river gives more than a gun, knowing how cold and hard the water's...
Geography
...years: he’s smaller, his voice lost in the distance between us. 3. On the Gulf and Ship Island Line my father and I walk the rails south toward town....