Shirley Elizabeth Thompson

Shirley Elizabeth Thompson is Associate Professor of American Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (2009). (November 2020)

On Race and Property in the South

“There is just something about the robustness of Black cultural institutions and networks in the South that can’t be matched elsewhere.”

November 28, 2020

Georgia On My Mind

The suburbs of Atlanta, where I grew up in an era still scarred by segregation, have transformed in ways that helped deliver Joe Biden the presidency. But some things never change.

November 19, 2020

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