African American Studies Commons^™

Sisters In Motherhood(?): The Politics Of Race And Gender In Lynching Drama, Koritha Mitchell

Koritha Mitchell

Chapter analyzing May Miller's Nails and Thorns, a lynching play not discussed in my book LIVING WITH LYNCHING.

Teaching “Segregation” And The Black Liberation Movement In The Age Of Obama, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua

Sundiata K Cha-Jua

Soul/R&B legend, Wilson Pickett was nominated for a Grammy in 1999 for the song “It’s Harder Now.” Pickett’s soul classic resonates with me in part because I find teaching African American history “harder now.” It is especially difficult to teach the sociohistorical period known variously as “the age of Jim Crow” or “Segregation.” Students don’t see the segregated South of the post World War II era as harrowing as Slavery or as rancorous as the Nadir, 1877-1923. Why is teaching African American history to this generation of college students such a difficult task? Why is the era of “Segregation” and …

Performance Review Of By Hands Unknown, Koritha Mitchell

Koritha Mitchell

Performance Review of BY HANDS UNKNOWN, theatrical presentation composed of 7 one-act lynching plays from the 1920s and 1930s.

Diaries Of A Prolific Professor: Undergraduate Research From The James Haskins Collection, Stephanie Y. Evans Phd

Stephanie Y. Evans PhD

Mapping the Haskins Legacy and an Imperative to Train Young Scholars: Race, Region, and Undergraduate Research

It seems unfathomable that someone who has written two hundred books could somehow remain

relatively unknown…unless, of course, the author were Black and from the American South. Further, it is beyond

belief that a university campus where such a prolific author dedicated three decades of teaching would be void

of physical tribute. But such is the case with the legacy of Dr. James Haskins who taught at the University of

Florida between 1977 and his passing in 2005. This collection of undergraduate student research …