Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...(nee Freeman) Tinney. Their son John (born 1859) seems to have been the classmate of Dennis Tinney at Howard. Their daughter, Emma Jane Tinney (born about 1861) married Robert Edward...
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...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
Introduction Before Hurricane Katrina struck in late August of 2005, the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama had among the highest levels of race, class, and gender inequality...
Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Race, Class, and Urban Expansion (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001), 8. The widening gap between poor and middle-class blacks reveals the persistence of race and class inequalities in the city....
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...professionals still work there. Its fans and participants aspire to transcend or dissolve regional expectations, theological boundaries, and denominational classifications. The music remains popular among white evangelicals and many African...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
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...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...race and class, in a community where his own divergence from masculine norms led him to be classified as Other from a young age. Moonlight writer/director Barry Jenkins likewise grew...