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The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

Southern Spaces, 2017
Evan C. Rothera reviews Brent M. S. Campney's This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861–1927 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015).
Evan C. Rothera
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No Use to the State: Phrasing Escape and a Black Radical Epistolary of Disability in Early Twentieth-Century Alabama Prisons

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2023
This article explores how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alabama’s prisons in the early twentieth century. Early-twentieth-century custodial prisons were a primary place in which disabled, southern Black women encountered ...
Micah Khater
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Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

Southern Spaces, 2016
In this photo essay, Lydia A. Harris presents facades and interiors of several homes in Collier Heights, a historic district in Atlanta, Georgia. All photographs by Lydia A. Harris.
Lydia A. Harris
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Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

Southern Spaces, 2004
This guide provides an introduction to the rich and varied blues traditions of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. It includes original documentary footage of area musicians, including interviews and music clips.
Steve Bransford
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Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

Southern Spaces, 2021
Kylie Smith reviews Mab Segrest\'s Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (New York: The New Press, 2020) and Wendy Gonaver\'s The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry ...
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Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

Southern Spaces, 2011
Cover of Gil Scott-Heron's Free Will, 1972. Claudrena N. Harold discusses the importance of the US South in the music and political imaginary of artist Gil Scott-Heron.
Claudrena N. Harold
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Hella Bars: The Cultural Inclusion of Black Women’s Rap in Insecure

Open Cultural Studies, 2022
The musical supervision of HBO’s insecure sonically maps various representations of Black women’s connections to hip-hop music as a site of autonomy, agency, and authenticity. Importantly, the variety of Black female rappers who are featured in seasons 1–
Johnson Adeerya
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White Innocence, Black Erasure: Reviewing Alcindo (2020) Against the Fictions of Portuguese Colonial Bonhomie

Práticas da História, 2023
This essay uses Miguel Dores’ documentary Alcindo (2020) to propose a critique of whiteness in Portugal. It is argued that the endorsement of narratives of lusotropicalismo, Portuguese colonial exceptionalism, forms a line of continuity between Portugal’
Patrícia Martins Marcos
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O navio de volta para casa: tropos analíticos como mapas da e para a história cultural da diáspora africana

Contemporânea, 2020
O foco do debate são as várias metáforas paradigmáticas que, de acordo com o autor, têm orientado as análises sobre a vida e cultura dos afrodescendentes nas Américas e sobre suas relações com a África.
J. Lorand Matory
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A Democratic Dilemma: Racial Attitudes, Authoritarianism, and Whites’ Evaluation of Minority Legislators

Social Sciences
The United States prides itself on its immigrant heritage and diversity, yet historically, minority advancements have faced opposition and violence. Little scholarship exists on how whites evaluate minority representation when represented by a minority ...
Emmitt Y. Riley, Clarissa Peterson
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