"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...point of view with regard to the negro did Mr. Taft imbibe while eating the possum?"9Don Marquis, "A Glance: Concerning the Possum and the Negro," Uncle Remus's the Home Magazine,...
Religion and the US South
...of God, Cleveland, Tennessee, September 30, 2010. Photographs by Flickr user J. Stephen Conn. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0 The Baptists, for example, represent the largest religious denomination in...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...city's users.11Between May 1923 and December 1929, the Times-Picayune published at least three hundred stories with references to marijuana, roughly one per week. The number of articles mentioning marijuana more...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...generation who came of age during Jim Crow. Reed writes with a purpose—not to chronicle his own pivotal events, hardships, or personal demons, nor to proclaim general truths. Instead, he...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Most Urgent Needs," Montgomery, Alabama, March, 1955. Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Struggles over segregated space that highlighted injustices offer some of the clearest examples of...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...factory wall shows a slash with a circle. The X was not completed and the circle indicates that a team left the building without completely searching it. Before and After...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...Glow Has Faded," The Chronical of Higher Education, 27 July, 2009, http://chronicle.com/article/Our-National-Postracial/47462/. Giscombe's elegiac rendering of one such fantasy, of one unrealizable but worthy dream, returns, then, to our place of...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...April 2, 2013, http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2013/04/bounce_originator_ricky_b_cele.html. Actual airplay for New Orleans rap and bounce on WWOZ, however, remains minimal. "Katrina wiped the palette clean in New Orleans," says Nesby Phips, New Orleans...
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...