Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...to a "hemispheric south" where planters and railroad promoters envisioned business and trade networks across the Mexican borderlands and into Latin America during the last third of the nineteenth century...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...for the centrality of performance to documentary generally, and not, as Nichols has characterized it, as a recent or "post-modern" development.22Bill Nichols, Blurred Boundaries (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995): 92-106. To be...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...European-American descent, mixed with some (often unacknowledged) American Indian ancestry. “As early as the 1760s, their forebears started moving into the southern colonies, over the objections of the British loyalists....
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...could smell traces of the enslaved, trapped in time and space; the mixed odors of sweat and human excreta exist there today. Fifteen miles from Cape-Coast Castle is Elmina Castle,...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Indiana in 1930, James H. Madison marshals considerable evidence to suggest that racism and racist violence have been central themes in Indiana's history. Yet, in his analysis, he remains committed...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
...American Indian Literary Nationalism (2007) and Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (2008). At the time of this lecture, Prof. Womack taught Native American literatures and gay and lesbian literatures...
The Chesapeake Bay
...know that Paleo-Indians hunted in what is now the offshore Atlantic coast since fishermen have recently found Paleo-Indian hunting implements and the remains of extinct species. About 4,500 years ago,...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...analysis draws on archival documents, promotional materials, newspapers, photographs, and interviews to explore how these shows got on and stayed on the air and what they meant to their audiences....
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...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...defined the northern side of the river as free of slavery, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, was the culmination of multiple power struggles among Indian tribes, French and British imperialists,...