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Native Southerners By Theda Perdue Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 1, 4-8 Southerners do not think very much about Indians unless, of course, they are vacationing in the Great Smoky Mountains or perhaps south Florida where the Cherokees and
Land of Deepest Shade: An Interview with John McWilliams Tom Rankin Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 10-14 EDITORS’ NOTE: “Land of Deepest Shade,” an exhibition of more than a hundred photographs by John McWilliams, is currently on view at
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Portraits from Slavery. Reviewed by Emory S. Campbell Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 15-16 Winslow Homer’s Images of Blacks by Peter H. Wood and Karen C.C. Dalton (University of Texas, 1989. Paper, 144 pp. $19.95.) Until the civil rights
A New Heaven and Earth. Reviewed by Mary James Dean Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 16-18 The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. 416 pp. $19.95.) Alice Walker in The Temple of
Victorian Reformer. Reviewed by Harold G. Fleming Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 18-19 Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer by Jacqueline Anne Rouse (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1989. 192 pp. $25.) If a truly definitive history of
Transformed Color Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 19-20 The Mississippi Chinese by James W. Loewen, with a preface by Robert Coles. (Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1988, second edition. Paper, xii, 257 pp. $8.95.) Whatever
Politics of Nativism. Reviewed by Larry Kilbourne Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 20-21 The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to New Right in American History by David H. Bennett (University of North Carolina Press, 1988. 509 pp. $29.95.)
The Law. Reviewed by Laughlin McDonald Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 21-23 Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights by Abigail M. Thernstrom (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. 316 pp. $25. Paperback edition, 1989, $10.95.) The Voting
The Cold Hard Truth By J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 24, 23 I spoke recently in Pittsburgh at an annual NAACP banquet. Ordinarily, NAACP types are leery of me because they often naively believe every societal