Mary Niall Mitchell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 542588 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mary Niall Mitchell |
| NOMBRES | Mary Niall |
| APELLIDO | Mitchell |
| FIRMA | MITCHELL M N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of New Orleans |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Behind the Scenes
On the evening of March 14, 2024, more than one hundred activists, students, and scholars crowded into the front gallery of the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, an outpost of Tulane University’s School of Architecture in the predominantly Black Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. A jazz trio led by Gregg Stafford, a cofounder of a benevolent society known as the Black Men of Labor, provided music that spread across the…
Wide Awake
Yet She Is Advancing”
buttons. 9 In addition to her environmental activism, Butler was a fierce advocate for DC Statehood, a fact that was recently commemorated by a mural commissioned by the League of Conservation Voters and the statehood advocacy group 51 for 51.The mural, created by artist Ces r Maxit, is prominently featured in the exhibit.The exhibition featured display cases with several artifacts related to its corresponding themes.Two items of particular inter…
My Work among the Freedmen
Journal Article My Work among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss Get access My Work among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss. Ed. by Jonathan W White and Lydia J Davis. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. xxxvi, 205 pp. $39.50.) Mary Niall Mitchell Mary Niall Mitchell University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this auth…
Bulldozed and Betrayed
Readers are to be forgiven if they dread reading this story of self-interested political hacks, secretive politicians, election meddling, resurgent white supremacist governing structures, and general backlash by white conservatives against democratic reforms and the rights of Black people. The book, however, serves as an important reminder that the United States made it through a dark period in American politics eerily similar to that surrounding…
The Case of the Slave-Child, Med
Anyone who has spent time in the papers of prominent abolitionists will find familiar themes in the story of Med. Med was a six-year-old enslaved child whose status was the focus of Commonwealth v. Ames (1836), a trial that Karen Woods Weierman argues was the connective tissue between the 1772 Somerset v. Stewart case in Britain and the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford case. In the years prior to Med's case, northern state courts had become increasing…
We always knew it was possible’
This paper examines the removal of the statues of General Robert E. Lee, General P. G. T. Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis in New Orleans as an illustration of a highly racialized strain of urban fallism: fallism pitting the proponents of diversity and inclusion against conservative, often white nationalist sympathisers. It argues that urban fallism in the context of New Orleans is a social movement driven by grassroots activists seeking the elimi…
J arret R uminski . The Limits of Loyalty
After the murders of George W. Lee, Lamar Smith, and Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955, the NAACP published a pamphlet entitled M Is for Mississippi and Murder. Given its bloody record, it might be surprising that Mississippi is now taking the most significant steps of any southern state to atone for the racial violence that came to define it. A poster-sized reproduction of that NAACP pamphlet now hangs in the new multimillion-dollar Mississippi…
Historians on Hamilton
Before picking up Historians on Hamilton to write this review, I expected to read scholars pointing out two things: the lack of an enslaved character in the play and only fleeting mentions of slavery. My expectations were met, but also surpassed. Hamilton is a 2016 musical about the life of the nation's first treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, drawn from the 2004 book Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow. The show's casting has been hailed as …
New Orleans at 300
This is the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of African American History focused on the African American experience in the history of New Orleans, on the occasion of the city's tricentennial
The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States
According to the authors in this volume, the revolution in St. Domingue and the establishment of the republic of Haiti, must be understood not only as a set of influential events but also as the source of an extensive archive of imagery, one reverberating with conflicting narratives and interpretations. Although the book is divided into three sections—histories, geographies, and textualities—the dominant theme is the same throughout: we have unde…
Benjamin N. Lawrance. Amistad’s Orphans
It is no small thing to propose a name change for the so-called “Age of Abolition.” However, African historians would agree that such a change is warranted, since they have long recognized that the period did not usher in an end to slavery. Indeed, slave emancipation in the Americas served as the gateway to the mass enslavement of Africans in the late nineteenth century. But scholars specializing in other parts of the Atlantic World in this perio…
Seeing Lincoln
This article is a re-examination of Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln in an effort to understand the film's engagement with nineteenth-century visual culture. Rather than consider whether or not the visual details of the film look, to modern audiences, to be authentic representations of the past, the author asks her readers to view the film as a reflection of how the Civil War era appeared to those who lived it, seeing the mid-nineteenth-century th…
To render invisible
Raising Freedom's Child
Raising Freedom's Child
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition. As a member of the first generation of African Americans raised in freedom, the black child-freedom's child-offered up the possibility that blacks might soon enjoy the same privile…
Gerstäcker's Louisiana
Righteous Propagation
"Rosebloom and Pure White," Or So It Seemed
WE HAVE A PICTURE OF ROSA DOWNS, THOUGH WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT SHE thought about having it made. In a photograph taken in a studio in New York in 1864 (fig. 1), she appears to have been a little girl born into the Victorian middle class, like the unnamed child who sat for a photographer in Philadelphia the same year (fig. 2). Both girls' portraits were rendered in vignette, a style popular at the time in which only the head of the sitter was visible…
A Good and Delicious Country
Mary Niall Mitchell, "A Good and Delicious Country": Free Children of Color and How They Learned to Imagine the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 123-144
We always knew it was possible’
This paper examines the removal of the statues of General Robert E. Lee, General P. G. T. Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis in New Orleans as an illustration of a highly racialized strain of urban fallism: fallism pitting the proponents of diversity and inclusion against conservative, often white nationalist sympathisers. It argues that urban fallism in the context of New Orleans is a social movement driven by grassroots activists seeking the elimi…
"Rosebloom and Pure White," Or So It Seemed
WE HAVE A PICTURE OF ROSA DOWNS, THOUGH WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT SHE thought about having it made. In a photograph taken in a studio in New York in 1864 (fig. 1), she appears to have been a little girl born into the Victorian middle class, like the unnamed child who sat for a photographer in Philadelphia the same year (fig. 2). Both girls' portraits were rendered in vignette, a style popular at the time in which only the head of the sitter was visible…
Historians on Hamilton
Before picking up Historians on Hamilton to write this review, I expected to read scholars pointing out two things: the lack of an enslaved character in the play and only fleeting mentions of slavery. My expectations were met, but also surpassed. Hamilton is a 2016 musical about the life of the nation's first treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, drawn from the 2004 book Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow. The show's casting has been hailed as …
A Good and Delicious Country
Mary Niall Mitchell, "A Good and Delicious Country": Free Children of Color and How They Learned to Imagine the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 123-144
A Good and Delicious Country
Mary Niall Mitchell, "A Good and Delicious Country": Free Children of Color and How They Learned to Imagine the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 123-144
"Rosebloom and Pure White," Or So It Seemed
WE HAVE A PICTURE OF ROSA DOWNS, THOUGH WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT SHE thought about having it made. In a photograph taken in a studio in New York in 1864 (fig. 1), she appears to have been a little girl born into the Victorian middle class, like the unnamed child who sat for a photographer in Philadelphia the same year (fig. 2). Both girls' portraits were rendered in vignette, a style popular at the time in which only the head of the sitter was visible…
Righteous Propagation
Gerstäcker's Louisiana
Raising Freedom's Child
Raising Freedom's Child
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition. As a member of the first generation of African Americans raised in freedom, the black child-freedom's child-offered up the possibility that blacks might soon enjoy the same privile…
Seeing Lincoln
This article is a re-examination of Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln in an effort to understand the film's engagement with nineteenth-century visual culture. Rather than consider whether or not the visual details of the film look, to modern audiences, to be authentic representations of the past, the author asks her readers to view the film as a reflection of how the Civil War era appeared to those who lived it, seeing the mid-nineteenth-century th…
To render invisible
Benjamin N. Lawrance. Amistad’s Orphans
It is no small thing to propose a name change for the so-called “Age of Abolition.” However, African historians would agree that such a change is warranted, since they have long recognized that the period did not usher in an end to slavery. Indeed, slave emancipation in the Americas served as the gateway to the mass enslavement of Africans in the late nineteenth century. But scholars specializing in other parts of the Atlantic World in this perio…
The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States
According to the authors in this volume, the revolution in St. Domingue and the establishment of the republic of Haiti, must be understood not only as a set of influential events but also as the source of an extensive archive of imagery, one reverberating with conflicting narratives and interpretations. Although the book is divided into three sections—histories, geographies, and textualities—the dominant theme is the same throughout: we have unde…
New Orleans at 300
This is the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of African American History focused on the African American experience in the history of New Orleans, on the occasion of the city's tricentennial
J arret R uminski . The Limits of Loyalty
After the murders of George W. Lee, Lamar Smith, and Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955, the NAACP published a pamphlet entitled M Is for Mississippi and Murder. Given its bloody record, it might be surprising that Mississippi is now taking the most significant steps of any southern state to atone for the racial violence that came to define it. A poster-sized reproduction of that NAACP pamphlet now hangs in the new multimillion-dollar Mississippi…
Historians on Hamilton
Before picking up Historians on Hamilton to write this review, I expected to read scholars pointing out two things: the lack of an enslaved character in the play and only fleeting mentions of slavery. My expectations were met, but also surpassed. Hamilton is a 2016 musical about the life of the nation's first treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, drawn from the 2004 book Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow. The show's casting has been hailed as …
We always knew it was possible’
This paper examines the removal of the statues of General Robert E. Lee, General P. G. T. Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis in New Orleans as an illustration of a highly racialized strain of urban fallism: fallism pitting the proponents of diversity and inclusion against conservative, often white nationalist sympathisers. It argues that urban fallism in the context of New Orleans is a social movement driven by grassroots activists seeking the elimi…
The Case of the Slave-Child, Med
Anyone who has spent time in the papers of prominent abolitionists will find familiar themes in the story of Med. Med was a six-year-old enslaved child whose status was the focus of Commonwealth v. Ames (1836), a trial that Karen Woods Weierman argues was the connective tissue between the 1772 Somerset v. Stewart case in Britain and the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford case. In the years prior to Med's case, northern state courts had become increasing…
Bulldozed and Betrayed
Readers are to be forgiven if they dread reading this story of self-interested political hacks, secretive politicians, election meddling, resurgent white supremacist governing structures, and general backlash by white conservatives against democratic reforms and the rights of Black people. The book, however, serves as an important reminder that the United States made it through a dark period in American politics eerily similar to that surrounding…
My Work among the Freedmen
Journal Article My Work among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss Get access My Work among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss. Ed. by Jonathan W White and Lydia J Davis. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. xxxvi, 205 pp. $39.50.) Mary Niall Mitchell Mary Niall Mitchell University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this auth…
Yet She Is Advancing”
buttons. 9 In addition to her environmental activism, Butler was a fierce advocate for DC Statehood, a fact that was recently commemorated by a mural commissioned by the League of Conservation Voters and the statehood advocacy group 51 for 51.The mural, created by artist Ces r Maxit, is prominently featured in the exhibit.The exhibition featured display cases with several artifacts related to its corresponding themes.Two items of particular inter…
Behind the Scenes
On the evening of March 14, 2024, more than one hundred activists, students, and scholars crowded into the front gallery of the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, an outpost of Tulane University’s School of Architecture in the predominantly Black Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. A jazz trio led by Gregg Stafford, a cofounder of a benevolent society known as the Black Men of Labor, provided music that spread across the…
Wide Awake
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