St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...The "slave market" became the focal point for the 1964 St. Augustine Movement—a clash between nonviolent protestors and segregationists—prior to President Lyndon Johnson's signing the Civil Rights Act.2Dan R. Warren,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...confidante, Betty Hester, compels their readers to revisit Andalusia and consider the ways in which, while circumscribing the locus of much of the author's life, it also provided a point...
How I Shed My Skin
...as teaching the worst lessons. There, racist discourse flowed between adults, between Sunday School and worship services, as well as mid-week meetings, at both the Baptist and Methodist churches he...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...the gothic and against which it responded" (133). Similarly, in his extended analysis of the nineteenth-century American gothic Justin Edwards "locate[s] racial ambiguity in the foreground of gothic expression" (xix)....
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...experienced an influx of Latino immigrants after 2000, as the overall Latino population of Durham grew rapidly. With a mix of single-family homes and apartment complexes built during different periods, the...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, and John C. Hall. Copyright © 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press. Photographs © 2012 by Beth Maynor Young. Used by...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...condition called climax, "'virgin forest'—many species, old bones, lots of rotten leaves, complex energy pathways, woodpeckers living in snags, and conies harvesting tiny piles of grass. This condition has considerable...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...argues that these promoters "helped instill new pathways of prosperity and steer[ed] a course of transnational connections between the United States and Mexico during the second half of the nineteenth...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Susan Harbage Page Ku Klux Klan uniforms, assorted fabrics Period table and four chairs Eight variously shaped bundles, formed from Ku Klux Klan uniforms from 1920s South Carolina, make up...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...(commonly called "labor pools") were an intermediate entity in the relationship between "clients" and workers. Labor pools profited from the difference between what clients paid them and what they in...