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...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Indiana in 1930, James H. Madison marshals considerable evidence to suggest that racism and racist violence have been central themes in Indiana's history. Yet, in his analysis, he remains committed...
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...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
A General Note to Readers: I have intended this essay to be read and the films viewed together. Rather than narrate the films, I have presented an analysis of them...
The Chesapeake Bay
...know that Paleo-Indians hunted in what is now the offshore Atlantic coast since fishermen have recently found Paleo-Indian hunting implements and the remains of extinct species. About 4,500 years ago,...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...defined the northern side of the river as free of slavery, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, was the culmination of multiple power struggles among Indian tribes, French and British imperialists,...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Americans.7In his study of Asian Indian immigrants in Atlanta in the 1980s, John Fenton found that Atlanta Indians reported incomes "much higher" than the avergae ($24,993) for all Indian families...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1979); Carol Smith, “Class Position and Class Consciousness in an Indian Community” in Moors, Guatmala Indians and...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...and the Second Seminole War erupted in 1835.4Jerald Milanich, Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995). Spanish settlers in St. Augustine owned some of...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Tashkent. In all, 130 companies from seventeen countries participated, among them Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, India, Italy, Russia, the United States, Turkey, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic, South Korea,...