Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...discourse defining the Cajun experience, a narrative colored, in part, by Lomax. In 1977, while still a master's student in folklore at Indiana University, Barry Ancelet and Beausoleil bandleader Michael...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...Barnard for The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, "Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto") by Victor Séjour (1817–1874), a New Orleans free man of color, was initially published in the March...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
...American Indian Literary Nationalism (2007) and Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (2008). At the time of this lecture, Prof. Womack taught Native American literatures and gay and lesbian literatures...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...and federal deputies, and revealed the extent of peonage labor.3Ibid. The Peonage Files of the USDepartment of Justice reveal widespread systematic abuse of immigrant, African American, and white workers throughout...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...SM13. The leader of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, William Vogt, warned that the loss of Japan and India to communism would indeed be a “serious breach in western defense.”9“Ripe...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...code." Is "She" "the poet" or Paul's "ivory spouse"? Given that generational confusions-of-tongues are a central feature of much of Alexander's poetry, it could well be both. In any case,...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...a clear-cut by a pulpwood merchant destroyed scores of historic African American gravesites and removed venerable trees by which elderly African-Americans had navigated the cemetery.12On the consequences of this clear...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Klan, rode on horseback intimidating African Americans, disrupting local Republican Party and Loyal League activities, preventing voting, and sometimes leaving the bodies of murdered African Americans along the sides of...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...first ecological demands did not acquire a central role; they were seen as one demand among many others that a progressive politics had to consider. Today, the situation is different....