Southern history

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• 5/29/2022
  

  There is a Real "Great Replacement" – But Not the One the Right Talks About

  by Guy Lancaster

  Arkansas history shows how the true Great Replacement in the United States has been organized by oligarchs hoping to use immigrant labor to undercut Black people's demands for economic fairness and human rights. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  4/20/2022
  

  The Intellectual History of the Black "New South"

  by Robert Greene II

  A new generation of African American thinkers is examining whether the South is the place where Black advancement can best be achieved. Intellectual history warns that myths of a "New South" have come and gone before, undermined by their inattention to power. 

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  4/1/2022
  

  Mill Mother's Lament: The Legacy of Ella May Wiggins

  by Karen Sieber

  The city of Gastonia has struggled to agree on the commemoration of the bloody 1929 Loray Mill strike, including how to account for the murder of pregnant union activist Ella May Wiggins. 

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• 3/6/2022
  

  The Power and Urgency of Public History

  by David M. Chamberlain

  After a tour of the South's historical sites, I maintain a teacher’s optimism that knowledge of our nation’s imperfect past offers us the necessary wisdom to walk ourselves back from the edge of the political ledge on which we are so perilously perched.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/14/2022
  

  Zora Neale Hurston's Complicated Relationship to Black Race Pride

  by Lauren Michele Jackson

  A new edited collection of the folklorist, anthropologist and novelist reveals the broad, category-defying intellectual life of a "genius of the South."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/14/2022
  

  U of Alabama to Rename Building for Desegregation Pioneer Autherine Lucy (Without Name of KKK Leader)

  A massive public outcry pushed the university's trustees to name the building solely after Lucy, without the name of former governor and Klansman Bibb Graves. 

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• SOURCE: Scalawag
  2/11/2022
  

  Songs for a South Underwater: Music that Carried People Through the Great 1927 Flood

  After the devastating flooding of 1927, and an indifferent response from the government, another flood of songs of protest and resilience ensued, creating a southern musical and cultural tradition. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/27/2022
  

  Manchin's Self-Proclaimed "Principled" Acts Mean Shunning His Constituents

  by Ashley Steenson

  Joe Manchin's torpedoing of the Build Back Better legislation reflects a historically prominent principle, though maybe not one the Senator would like to acknowledge: contempt for most of his constituents.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/23/2022
  

  Erasing Black Leadership from Reconstruction History Still Distorts Our Understanding

  by Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry

  The actions of southern Black leaders during Reconstruction shed light not just on their efforts to secure political power but the kind of multiracial democracy and society they hoped to achieve.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/10/2022
  

  Art and the Free South

  "For the Free Southern Theater’s members, bringing the stage to the countryside made political education accessible while enabling artists to participate in politics."

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• SOURCE: Protean
  12/17/2021
  

  Dead Man Running (Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Jim Crow Blues Again)

  by Ryan Zickgraf

  Mobile's current municipal elections combined the bizarre with the bureaucratic and institutional politics of racism. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/6/2021
  

  Today's Culture Wars are Playing Out on Plantation Tours

  by Kelley Fanto Deetz

  "Museum professionals at plantations hear it all and must balance viewpoints that are diametrically opposed to one another, such as the romanticized notion of antebellum gentility and the constant fear of terror and violence of the enslaved."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/2021
  

  As A White Student in a Mostly Black School After Brown, I Learned Not to Fear History

  by Woody Holton

  "My three and a half years as a racial minority convinced me that one of the biggest beneficiaries of school desegregation was me."

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  10/28/2021
  

  Black Women in Noxubee County, Miss. Fight Historical Inequities Exposed by COVID

  COVID-19 has highlighted the historical processes of agricultural labor, land ownership, and economic underdevelopment that have made Black residents of Noxubee County in eastern Mississippi vulnerable to both illness and economic from the pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  9/29/2021
  

  Could a College Football Union Be the Biggest Force for Progress in the South?

  "There are huge numbers of conservative Southerners who would fight against all important progressive reforms — unless doing so threatened their access to college football. Then, they would at least be willing to negotiate."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/2021
  

  The Shocking Saga of the Murdaughs of South Carolina

  "People with power and money in such tribal regions can retain their hold on their ways — and their communities — for a long time. But corruption never strays far from the prideful and the powerful, especially among those who inherit privilege."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/26/2021
  

  The Failed Plan to Replace the South's Black Labor Force with Chinese Immigrants

  James Loewen's work "The Mississippi Chinese" is a touchstone for writer Jay Caspian Kang, who reflects on the connections between race and exploitation in history. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  8/19/2021
  

  Off Main Street: Black Space, Agency, And Community Building In The Jim Crow South

  by Kirin Makker

  Nostalgic references to "Main Street" are common today, but conceal the racially exclusionary nature of both business ownership and consumption in American history. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/2/2021
  

  Southern Children Need to Hear the Truth about History

  Opinion writer Margaret Renkl examines the controversy over an elementary school social studies reading list as an exercise in denial. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  

  Under Columbus, Georgia: What Folklore Erases

  by Bryan Banks

  Subterranean tunnels under Columbus, Georgia have been repurposed as part of dramatic stories of crime, emancipation, and war, tales which obscure the more prosaic and violent aspects of the town's history.