Cajun South Louisiana
...began efforts to reclaim a French ethnic heritage that could coexist with Americanization. The Roman Catholic Church was one institution that promoted an ethnic French identity that connected south Louisiana...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...I said with emphasis, "she's doing all right." "Well," she hesitated, "that's good. Please tell her I love her." That's the story that convinced Ash Kotak that Jheri and her...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
Introduction The blades of grass on all the Butler estates are outnumbered by the tears that are poured out in agony at the wreck that has been wrought in happy...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...that this voting rights case was primarily a competition between the constitutional right of citizens to vote and the "constitutional equality of the States"—and held that states' rights won.2Coyle v....
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...that we want to put everything into this database, but that is neither feasible nor desirable. If we were to map "everything," I'm not sure that we'd understand what we're...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...by that upheaval and diversity. What is "southern studies" today, well into the twenty-first century, in the age of the global-superpower United States? Whatever it is, we think it is...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...for them neither. We'd have to play basically what we had to play for highbrow white people." "Now, the regular black people you could play the blues for. That's what...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...before the 1940s. My first major find appeared in the criminal records that, once I paired that data with immigration records and colonial records from the Bahamas, taught me that...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...From "the vanguard of the southern movement promoting proslavery ideology in the legal realm," Lumpkin and Cobb "legitimated the institution in Georgia so that the laws reflected the racial views...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...marriage illegal denied to mixed race children all claims to White property and, more significantly, to White identity. The codes that restricted property ownership and the vagrancy laws that permitted...