An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...own right. But looking across some of the events that have taken place since 1933 — not just the Holocaust but, in America and the South, civil rights and integration,...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...for American Studies at the British Library. His research centers upon on African American history and literature since 1865, with a particular interest in African American media and print culture....
Encountering COVID
...on social media." I could do the same thing. I could do Americans of the pandemic. Who We Are Now—that was the name right from the beginning. I know that...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...increasing rates of Latin American immigration to the Atlanta metropolitan area Part 3: Transnational migrant circuits between Atlanta and localities in Mexico and Central America Part 4: Situating Chamblee and Doraville as...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...American life. In her work on symbolism in African American literature and visual culture, Sharpe argues that the wake symbolizes the "endurance of anti-Blackness . . . the on-going problem...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...hasten to locate US African American practices as either African or American in origin, and, instead, acknowledges the potential for cohabitation and communication between seemingly rival cosmologies. In this way,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...pre-registration and canvassing data, only six of those were categorized as schools where desegregation was "probable" on opening day; by that date, the number had risen to eight. See statistical...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...an American. Mayne's The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life followed two years later, becoming the first study of homosexuality by an American author. Imre's...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...see Richard Davenport-Hines, The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, 1st American ed. (New York: Norton, 2002); Martin Booth, Cannabis: A History, First U.S. Edition (New York: St....