Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...throughout the Americas, having African antecedents, and transmitted by enslaved and free people across the generations.11Jamieson, Ross W., "Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practices," Historical Archaeology 29 (1995):...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...(xxvii). Wahlstrom also considers the experiences of African Americans and non-slaveholding whites. Contra Rolle's account, southern emigrants to Mexico did not solely represent a "Lost Cause" flight of renegade whites,...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...right of the pier, at Higgs Beach, is the African Cemetery, where some 294 African men, women, and children are buried. Over a thousand Africans were brought illegally (after the...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...into the work of white Progressive Rebecca Latimer Felton. In contrast with Terrell and Sloan, Felton viewed African American women as an inherently and irredeemably deviant group that, like African...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...poisoning he probably contracted from his work on antique clocks, McLemore's paranoia drove him to suicide on June 15, 2015. This loss makes me doubly grateful that Brian Reed, S-Town's...
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...
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 Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...is an indigenous Haitian religion, closely related to West African Vodun, that draws from multiple West African religions, in addition to Roman Catholicism, European mysticism, and freemasonery. Most practitioners of...