Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...marry and raise their family in rural Caroline County, Virginia. In the 2016 cinematic dramatization, Loving, writer-director Jeff Nichols best exemplifies this simplicity neither through dramatic courtroom scenes nor in...
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...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
An Excerpt from the Introduction Cover image based on Tu lugar, 2006. Painting by Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy. Throughout the nineteenth century, aided by railroads and steam technologies, industrial plantations...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...fair, just place, but I continue to search, hoping and believing that there’s a place for me.”4Shepherd, “To Make Me Who I Am,” Orpheus in the Bronx: Essay on Identity,...
Religion and the US South
...Pew Research Center. All reports courtesy of The Pew Research Center. Religion continues to define the US South as a distinctive part of the United States. It contributes to defining...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...bring together research projects, resources, and information about the Atlanta metro region and inspire new scholarship. Atlanta Studies (www.AtlantaStudies.org), which launched Feb. 16, is an open-access online publication that features...