Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Texas Cherokees numbered several hundred while around five thousand western Cherokees settled in present-day western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Many of the 16,500 who still inhabited their ancestral homeland in...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...to commemorate the slave sale.54Allynne Tosca Owens, City Planner, City of Savannah, personal communication, March 2, 2009. The city's actions were prompted by Monifa Johnson, a niece of Mayor Otis...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...four victims—three unidentified victims and one military veteran—lie in a "city-affiliated cemetery for indigents."41Fieseler, Tinderbox, 191. No protestors stormed City Hall. Few challenged the homophobic culture or city codes. The...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...capitol city, Alfredo met and fell in love with Juana, another Maya youth from Santa Eulalia who migrated to Guatemala City for more schooling. Her father, a teacher and leader...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Southern general sent the child home to be adopted into his plantation household in Nashville, Tennessee.2Andrew Jackson to Rachel Jackson, November 4 and December 19 and 29, 1813, in The...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...the sixteenth century. It was not until the 1880s that Tampa, or the neighborhood of Ybor City, became a truly transnational city with the increased arrival of Latina/o laborers, who...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Orleanians think spatially about their city. The New Orleans Planning Districts map roughly corresponds to popular designations of city geography. The titles for these planning districts are used for the...