Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...marriages was part of a desperate attempt to restrain and confine African Americans in the wake of slavery, similar in intent and scope to the Black Codes, the series of...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...the African hot wind and percussion orchestra; the typical Zydeco combo of accordion and frottoir or washboard playing hot licks to what might be an old African chant." When set...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...of where those race relations take place. Today I will be sharing work from my final chapter, which looks at three contemporary African American poets. I should offer a caveat...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...African character everywhere: African-born merchants dominated the city’s street economy by selling food and African-made textiles, while African languages were as commonly spoken as Portuguese. Bahia’s African populace also shaped...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...Indian Country outside the Creek Nation, among Lakota people in South Dakota, for example; as an advocate for Native Hawaiian prisoners incarcerated in Oklahoma and Arizona; as an interim pastor...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Both Africans and Afro-descendants accessed them and fought for them through the courts, a relatively remarkable phenomenon—in light of the documented difficulty that many Africans had to access courts of...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...backgrounds that reflect Creole cultural contact and transformation: Taj Mahal is of African American and British West Indian parentage; Cedric Watson claims Louisiana Creole, Mexican Spanish, Native American, and African...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...especially, of African Americans in the early twentieth century. In the late 1800s, a "colored" high school opened in LaFollette that served, at its peak, nearly one hundred African American...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...