McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...many. Two decades later, when Creek people had begun to recover from this, they got hit with another disaster for Indian America across the United States. This is the Dawes...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...access journal, Southern Spaces is committed to supporting our authors in communicating the value of their publications to tenure and promotion committees. Members of such committees may not have experience...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...popularity came and went with an alarming ease following the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America. In the heady days following Henry...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America, (New York: Basic Books, 1984). On deindustrialization in the South, see John Gaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith and Alex Willingham, eds., Communities in...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Library on American Slavery, a database of nearly 3,000 legislative petitions, 14,500 county court petitions, as well as personal documents like wills and bills of sale. Professor Thomas Costa at...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
..."Rhythms of the Land: Africa Came to America," 2013, accessed November 6, 2013, http://rhythmsoftheland.com. In the 1940s, the US poultry industry remained a decentralized operation, founded on household production of...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...logic of nineteenth-century America. See Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) and Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H937. There was also red meat for religious conservatives. During his 2012 campaign for governor, former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory had promised to concentrate on promoting jobs while avoiding divisive...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...(June 2010): 733-765; "A Resolution to encourage Enlistments and to promote the Efficiency of the military Forces of the United States," Bills and Resolutions, U.S. Senate, S.R. 82, 38th Congress,...