Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...don't you see, this man's hatred would be your death.' "'What does that matter,' Georges shouted impetuously. 'At least I could reproach him for his unspeakable conduct.' "'Hush. . ....
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...thought and feelings with you, in the awful solitudes of a subterranean world. And I hoped, that, in that mysterious realm, where the silence is so profound, that every heart-throb...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...I sketch four real historical bars that Weathers frequented: The Acme, Fernando's Hideaway, The Country, and Mary Ellen's Top Hat. I approach "Cheers" as a historical document that records how...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...vision of Louisiana in the documentary classic Louisiana Story. The making of that Louisiana story follows Flaherty's standard format. He created "narrative documentaries," what we might call today "docudramas." But...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...but airing images of youth music culture was a complicated proposition that involved television technologies, network affiliations, marketing, and racial segregation. This essay examines four programs that brought music and...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...as an LGBTQ person and understand where I came from and if that could, at all, help me figure out how to navigate this time period that we're in [today...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...making is a convoluted process. Is that what you were envisioning for these two works? Lawson: That’s exactly how I imagined the pieces would be interpreted. Art and religion can...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...“Bill increasing tax credits for private schools defeated at end of session,” Mississippi Today, May 7, 2024, https://mississippitoday.org/2024/05/07/private-schools-tax-credits-mississippi-legislature/. Why is Mississippi currently an exception to the rush to ESAs? First,...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...that included a musician named Dewey Balfa who sat in on guitar when the group performed at that year's festival. Newport rejuvenated interest and pride for traditions thought by some...
Religion and the US South
...Religion in the colonial period was considerably different from that in 1830, and subsequent generations experienced dramatic social changes that would affect religion. Evangelicalism came to dominate the religious life...