The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...face not just in the trailer park, but elsewhere in Mississippi and when they travel. When Jheri tells about her varied job history, it's implicit that after she transitioned, she...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Alfred E. Hawkins issued the first convictions, Judge Roberts spoke movingly about the continued need for adequate legal counsel. Ellen Spears, Historian David Carter, Jane Carter, historian Dan Carter,...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...NSRP have relied on a pathological interpretative model. According to such analysis, the far right comprises some of the dispossessed elements of society, women and especially men influenced by a...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
“If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would... It makes me weep to feel the history of...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...US citizens and have the same legal status as anybody else in the United States. If you don't get anything else out of this talk, you can take away the...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...returning from rural sites in Mississippi, Koya found the hotel fully booked. He decided to take a short trip to Nashville to see an acquaintance, Robert Nail, a church elder...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...“new style” Sacred Harp promoted by David and Clarke adopted the practice, widespread elsewhere, of opening and closing with prayer. These actions violated the Decorum of the Alabaha River Primitive...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Press, 2008); Víctor Goldgel Carballo, "El fantasma de la raza: simulación, caricaturas y cosméticos en la Cuba del siglo XIX," in Miradas efímeras. Cultura visual en el siglo XIX, ed....
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...education, or a skill. The professional elite, who had trained at the normal schools, seminaries, and colleges in Atlanta and elsewhere were the "talented tenth," destined according to Du Bois...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...