Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...twentieth century, the neighborhood was predominantly white working- and middle class, but as the housing stock aged in the late 1980s, more African American families gained access. Creekridge Park also...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Midwest. We're glad to have somebody who's in the trenches the way that Andrew is in terms of the matters that we're talking about today. Andrew is a full member...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...first census to record the names of all recently emancipated African Americans, records about sixty African Americans named Clifton in the state of South Carolina. The only white slave owning...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Ellison later suggested that jazz’s birth and growth was a "freedom statement," "Constitution," and "Bill of Rights" for African Americans. In New Orleans, Creoles, African Americans, and some Euro-Americans (especially...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Surveillance Files, 1947–1980. Since African Americans were not human, according to the NSRP, miscegenation would result in an inferior mongrel race. Yet even though African Americans were a serious threat,...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Smith, “Market Rivals or Class Allies? Relations between African American and Latino Immigrant Workers in Memphis,” in Shefner and Ansley, 299-317. Nonetheless, we also find echoes of African Americans’ oppression...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...from long years of manual labor left him unemployed, poor, and unsure as to how he would provide for his family. Cohen emphasized the centrality of work and manual labor...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...efforts with local archivists, museum professionals, and scholars to commemorate the Emanuel shootings and promote greater awareness of African American history and contemporary struggles for racial justice. About the Author Mary...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...out? What if the gaze was reversed? Arguably, Lowe's impulse teeters on making the Caribbean an exotic "side-chick" to the central story. Why centralize Hurston and Johnson and Smartt Bell...