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,...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...memorials, for the most part, people maintain their personal practices of memorial creation. Roadside memorials have faced a number of legal challenges, as state department of transportation officials and legislative...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Church, Brantley County, constituted in 1819, moved to its current site near Schlatterville in 1822. Photo by Laurie Kay Sommers, 2001. Courtesy of South Georgia Folklife Collections, Valdosta State University...
The Liminal Site
...the start, and quite unavoidably (given the glory of the site), I imagined my garden as site-specific art, a celebration of both place and space. What I wanted—my wife, far...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...including Alabama ex-governor Emmet O'Neal, they understood that such officials frequently talked down mob violence by doubling down on state-sanctioned execution. For these "law and order" officials, capital punishment offered...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Religion and the US South
...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...Mexican Americans should be included in the official history of medical exclusion in the United States" (283). Racial and ethnic prejudice and illness have combined in potent ways to justify...
Residues of Border Control
...merely safe might prefer to ignore. –Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 7 Susan Harbage Page photographs objects found at the international border (objects trouvés), in the Rio...