Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...impetus as an explicitly abolitionist form, like Stowe's novel (indeed the narratives were an important source for her book's rendering of slave life). The fugitive or freed slaves, writing first-hand...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...members of her community, many who sought their freedom by way of fugitive paths, to love themselves, fully and deeply, precisely because of the white world outside the safety of...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...was president of the student body, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an active member of the National Student Association. After studying in France (1955-1956) as a Fulbright scholar...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...bridge for freedom's cause."13"Text of Democrat Barack Obama's Prepared Remarks for a Rally on Tuesday in St. Paul, Minn., as Released by his Campaign," Associated Press, June 4, 2008. Children...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...more common among free blacks than slaves because the former lacked white control. Many black diseases, Cartwright maintained, arose from defective atmospherization of the lungs, depriving oxygen to their brains,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...powers-that-be clearly saw the connection between my life as a teacher, a thinker, and a worker— between economic and intellectual issues—the connection that I had not made at that time....
The State House Aflame 1833
...different. It's twelve noon, and the assembly's just adjourned; the State House is aflame, and water won't reach the heights a slave can. Sam's a bondsman. The roof, the roof,...
Image Credits
...Street" sign, New York, August 29, 2013. Photograph by Flickr user Luciano Alves, Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Historic NYC Mattachine sign, New York, August 6, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Marty...