"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...the Midwest. Ten minutes later he has forgotten and again assumes I have been traveling through the South."5James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. (New York: The New...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...(103). This multi-media interplay is a relatively new convention for academic writing. Here, old-school New Historicist methods comingle with explications of computer code and user interface to demonstrate how digital...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Southgate is author of Another Way to Dance (New York: Delacorte Press, 1996), The Fall of Rome: A Novel (New York: Scribner, 2010), Third Girl from the Left (New York: Houghton...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...analyses. Just as the introduction begins with Ellington's "Suite," the following chapter, "New Orleans, America, Music," uses the compilation album Dear New Orleans (released in August 2010 to commemorate the...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Steve Striffler, Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). La industria de la construcción en el sur también dependía altamente del reclutamiento de...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...by unknown author. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Those skeptics might have been surprised to know that the twins had indeed considered surgically untying themselves...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...to a "hemispheric south" where planters and railroad promoters envisioned business and trade networks across the Mexican borderlands and into Latin America during the last third of the nineteenth century...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...especially Charles J. Ogletree, The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). A few months later,...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...and he found himself face to face with a stranger. "'By my freedom,' he cried, looking over the newcomer, 'you found our recess all too easily.' "'Africa and freedom,' Georges...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Indian (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2006), 189. Battle of Talladega, 1855. Engraving by unknown creator. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Art and Picture Collection Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-f6d5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. In current...