...Stephanie Li In the 1997 essay “Home,” Toni Morrison explores her attempt to create “race-specific, race-free language,” asking “How to enunciate race while depriving it of its lethal cling?” I propose that Morrison's conception of language that encodes race without racism represents a new way...

...Marlon B. Ross This essay explores the notion of the race icon, a prominent public image or figure that stands in for a racial group, as it is exploited as a tool both for racial debasement and for racial uplift. The essay traces the public imaging of the heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis...

...W. W. Ball Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 IMPROVEMENT IN RACE RELATIONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA: THE CAUSE W. W. BALL THE ANNOUNCEMENT that for the year ending May 3, 1940, there had been no lynching in the United States was hailed everywhere with satisfaction; and as a cause...

...C. Chilton Pearson Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Volume XXIII JANUARY Number 1 The South Atlantic Quarterly Race Relations in North Carolina: A Field Study of Moderate Opinion C. Chilton Pearson Wake Forest College For two months during the summer of 1920 the writer...

...Francis B. Simkins Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 Race Legislation in South Carolina Since 186> Francis B. Simkins The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. PART II, 1869 AND AFTER The constitution of 1868 was also supplemented by laws concerning labor contracts, civil rights, suffrage...

...Francis B. Simkins Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 Race Legislation in South Carolina Since 186£ Francis B. Simkins The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. PART I. 1865-1869 With the surrender of Lee at Appomatox and the consequent collapse of the Confederate Government, the elaborate...

...Josiah Morse Copyright © 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 The University Commission on Southern Race Questions Josiah Morse University of South Carolina Where is the ethical, psychological, anthropological, or economic monograph, the result of accredited, modern scien­ tific methods...

...Bruce Clayton In Search of the Silent South: Southern Liberals and the Race Issue . By Sosna Morton . New York : Columbia University Press , 1977 . Pp. xvi , 275 . $11.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 124 The South Atlantic Quarterly was widowed very young...

...Gerald W. Hartwig India and East Africa: A History of Race Relations Within the British Empire, 1890–1939 . By Gregory Robert G. . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1971 . Pp. xviii , 555 . $24.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 165 life...

...John Spencer Bassett Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy : The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Bassett Affair John Spencer Bassett We are reprinting the following essay from the South Atlantic Quarterly of October 1903. It was written...

...Allen W. Trelease The Triumph of Jim Crow: Tennessee Race Relations in the 1880’s . By Cartwright Joseph H. . Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press , 1976 . Pp. xiii , 286 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 261 The Triumph of Jim Crow...

...Carl N. Degler Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Revival in Reconstruction History A Review Essay of Region, Race, and Reconstruction; Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward Carl N. Degler Although today biographers of John C. Calhoun do not quote the death­ bed words ascribed...

...Robert F. Durden The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders . By Oakes James . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1982 . Pp. xix , 307 . $16.95 . Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 458 The South Atlantic Quarterly will be bothered by the iconoclastic nature...

...Martin Bernal Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Martin Bernal Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins My work Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization is concerned with the formation of ancient Greece, which I believe...

...Susan Gillman Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Susan Gillman Sure Identifiers : Race, Science, and the Law in Twain s Pudd nhead Wilson A book is the writer s secret life, the dark twin of a man. William Faulkner, Mosquitoes Soon after Pudd nhead Wilson was published in late...

...John C. Inscoe Faulkner, Race, and Appalachia John C. Inscoe Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, is a long way from the southern Ap­ palachians, and William Faulkner has never been noted as a chronicler of the mountain experience. But in at least two instances he does write of southern mountaineers...

... Eastern” appearance was attacked. It is significant that the Cronulla race riots took place on the beach, a site where cultural differences have been contested in Australia's past—and present, in light of the war on terror. Cronulla is steeped in surfing tradition, and a cultural process known to surfers...

... as revolutionary consciousness. Finally, I describe how victorious Liberal elites used the trope of race war to criminalize community insurgents, whose leaders were subject to trial, imprisonment, and execution, and stress the importance of linking national political struggles to local-level conflicts...

... it, and our enemies see it as a sign of weakness.” My essay argues that Obama's bows to Akihito followed by a slight bow to Chinese president Hu Jintao several months later should be seen as a displacement of what Denise Ferreira da Silva calls the “global idea of race,” where since the First Opium War Euro...

...Sharon P. Holland 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Sharon P. Holland The Last Word on Racism: New Directions for a Critical Race Theory Dismayingly, institutionalized racism and prejudice endure too, long after the abolition of slavery...