In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
as well as the role of Jews in the antebellum South, the extent to which they suffered from anti-semitism and the extent to which they believed in white supremacy and slavery. The patriarch ...
Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping an abusive father, and the other escaping slavery — went straight to the heart of the question ...
Derek W. Black But bad habits die hard. In “Dangerous Learning,” Black explores policies designed to suppress education among Black Americans in the antebellum South and how the legacy of those ...
A subculture of violence has existed among African Americans for over a century; the same problem appeared among whites in the antebellum South. Culture isn’t written in stone, however, and can change ...
Michael Ray Charles is a contemporary American painter. His work explores historic African American stereotypes from the Antebellum South, appropriating images from advertising and pop culture to ...