Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...before daylight, and I go out and it's pitch black, there's no sound and no light, and that's gone. Many times I've been praying, and just thinking, this is just...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...chapter of the black fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, mount a privately funded historical marker near the scene. The marker, placed on a triangle of land at a right-of-way controlled by...
Brass Knuckles
...under the patina of blackened brass, against my jaw, is the blood of a man my grandfather beat near death. Becawse? he chuckled when I was eight, I didn't like...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
Local Color
...the South, where they often focused on black-white family relations or upper-lower class divisions in ways that challenged the elitist and paternalistic message of works by white male counterparts (see...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...rabbit coops overgrown with blackberry vines, lichen, and other muds; sheds frozen in time circa 1998, filled with tackleboxes, house siding, oxygen tanks, and gigantic spiders; and work areas that...