University of Southern Mississippi

“Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor” by Nisbett & Cohen In 1996 Nisbett and Cohen aimed to see the difference in behavior more specifically aggression between cultures. He did this by gathering participants from the North and the South, the South was defined as being from Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas. All other participants were…

My family has been in Mississippi for generations and is your typical Southern (Black American) family. My family was raised in North Mississippi in an area known as the Delta. My grandmother is a divorced single parent of six children. My grandmother chose her religion as a Jehovah Witness and she reared her children in the fundamentals of her religion. She has worked for thirty years as a housekeeper at The Holiday Inn where she became the manager. My grandmother has been a great influence…

School campaigns in Mississippi. The objectives of the organizations were to draw national attention to racism in Mississippi and to the register of black voters. Baker and her team were firm believers that voting was” one key to freedom” (ellabakercenter.org). In the late 1960 the message, actions, and philosophy of the SNCC changed. Baker continued to support the organization however her role was reduced over time (Veil, 2015). From 1962 to 1967 she was a staff member of the Southern…

What is southern literature? That is the question. To me southern literature means exactly what it implies, stories about people and places in the southland, their traditions, and what makes them unique. Scholars from the Athens Regional Library define it in the same way as myself saying, “Southern literature (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region.” An American novelist, Pat Conroy…

Illiniwek at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has had some controversy. After the name was changed, the university still argued that the mascot name was an honor for Native Americans. The nickname "Fighting Illini" was all they ended up being able to use because it could refer to the state and not to a tribe. Southeastern Oklahoma State University changed their name and mascot from the name Savages, but it was very controversial. Many supporters of the university didn’t understand…

When readers first hear the name Alice Walker, the first thing that will probably come to mind is one of her most popular works, The Color Purple. Well, besides receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National book award for The Color Purple, Walker has written several other pieces, such as seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her work continues to reach out to people, especially African American women who she writes about…

Carolina, where she was greatly impacted and inspired by her grandmother who was a slave. Her grandmother would tell her stories about slavery, which gave Ella a view into social justice at a young age. Ella, as class valedictorian, graduated from Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. After graduating, she moved to New York City to begin her career as a social activist. She joined many social activist organizations and women’s organizations. Ella began working with the NAACP and she would…

Quitman County is located in the northwestern portion of the Mississippi Delta. The county’s main town, Marks, MS served as a flag stop station for Amtrak passenger trains. Nationally, the county is well known for producing high quantity of crushed soybeans. HISTORY While a woodsman named Moore initially settled Quitman County another settler is more frequently referenced in historical factors about the county. Since Moore did not have a legal title to the land he settled, Thomas B. Hill…

reason why this theory stands out so much to me is because it allows me to understand just how much group work can affect the self-esteem of the individuals who make up a group. The theory was developed in 2015 by Donald F. Sacco of The University of Southern Mississippi and Michael J. Bernstein of Penn State Abington. The first part of the…

stated his famous words in relation to the place that beauty had in the civil rights movement multiple times. He said, “Be beautiful. You must be…” While his words were very traditional, they sparked something inside of society, specifically white southern women. This new idea of beauty was intriguing and many thought it to be an important role of a solid reconstruction. But, the issue was in the economy— It did not support this idea of spending money on cosmetic products when…