Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...free women of color formed a benevolent organization, the Female Union Band Society (FUBS). A decade later and for $250, they engaged Joseph T. Mason—schoolteacher and free man of color—to...
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...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...autonomy after World War II (1939–1945) in 1948, the aviation infrastructure was divided into the Kelly Air Force Base, the Randolph Air Force Base, and the Lackland Air Force Base.7John...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Orange Mound neighborhood, intersection of Airways Boulevard and Lamar Avenue, Memphis, TN, 2009. These numbers conflict with the stated goals of present-day development efforts to create a niche for Memphis...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...work that she views the language that she writes as if she saw her pages from the air, as if "from an airplane."3William Carlos Williams's pioneering essay, "The Work of...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Their torsos curved, their hair curled, and their lips smiled. They wore forties and fifties dresses and ribbons in their hair, and they bopped and shook when they performed like...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...in Jelly-Schapiro's travel narrative. There are two small exceptions. While Lowe devotes half a chapter to Lafcadio Hearn, Jelly-Schapiro casually mentions a parking garage in Fort-de-France named in Hearn's honor;...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...pop air, signal both renewal and reorientation from within the very wreckage of late modernity" (213). Sweet Air is a valiant attempt to understand the ways in which the forces...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Departments—Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Reunion—the incidence of diabetes is twice as high as in continental France. "Le Diabète Explose en France: 2 Fois Plus de Diabétiques dans les Dom-Tom Qu'en Métropole,"...