The Shenandoah Valley
...the Valley "will have little in it for man or beast." Sheridan's final report on the campaign stated that his troops destroyed or captured 3,772 horses, 10,918 cattle, 12,000 sheep,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...and Keith H. Basso, eds. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1996), 19. I should note that in this essay and elsewhere Casey's claims are broad. He often uses...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
..."long history of stylistic exchange and mutual influence" with black gospel music and their near parallel commercial development during the early and middle twentieth century. A segregated society and record...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...A Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 14. He argues that "in Mississippi, spatial configurations—the unique characteristics of a rural landscape—forged distinct human interactions, movements, and sites,"...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...3.5 % Change, 1990–2006 1116.0 94.0 Black Population % of Total Population, 1990 14.9 45.8 % of Total Population, 2006 18.6 45.3 % Change, 1990–2006 24.8 -1.0 White Population %...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...to Groe": Life, Labor and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1780-1920, 12. Like landscape, the institution of slavery was subject to dynamic change. William Dusinberre's Them Dark Days: Slavery in...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...the United States, 1848–1928 (London: Oxford University Press, 2017); David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987); and Nicholas Villanueva Jr.,...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Nanook's walrus or J.C. Boudreaux's alligator hunts.10Della Pollock, "Making History Go." Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998): 11. Yet to object to Flaherty's...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Flor, 1989 [1980]) and Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888–1988 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), 54–89; Dain Borges, "'Puffy, Ugly, Slothful, and Inert': Degeneration in Brazilian Thought,...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...larger changes in southeastern Native polities between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Beck's work complicates James Merrell’s monumental 1989 text on Catawba history, The Indians' New World.1James H. Merrell, The...