A recent column in the alumni newsletter of my alma mater,
the University of
Mississippi, is headlined
"We Have Legacies." The quote is lifted from the column and would ordinarily
evoke the world of Southern landed gentry. A photograph on the page, however,
shows the author to be an African-American woman, thereby turning another Old
South stereotype on its head at a school that already has cast off many symbols
of its all-white history. The battle flag of the Confederacy is no longer
displayed at Ole Miss football… more
