Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...trains, any shared coach was to be "divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs," while restaurants were subject to still more stringent regulations.19The Code...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...to the proposed mammy memorial in Washington DC, and the mammy figure within Lost Cause discourse. About Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Jean Ancelet, "Research on Louisiana French Folklore and Folklife," in French and Creole in Louisiana, ed. Albert Valdman (New York: Plenum Press, 1997), 351–356; Ben Sandmel and Rock Olivier, Zydeco!...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
"Aint that Something?"
Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
Introduction Mary E. Frederickson, Tending an early twentieth century Draper loom made in Massachusetts for use in mills across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. I heard the...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...for Zelia, colonial laws dictated that the slave must be blamed and executed for her master's injury.4Commenting on the Black Code and the kinds of punishment inflicted on slaves for...