Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Society of the United States SPCA—Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Codes Elsewhere X-codes have been used in responding to disasters across the country through the years. Informal...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript Dorothy Moye, Upper Ninth Ward house with "KEN" marking from private contractor, 2009. It was a late afternoon in June 2006, and I was lost...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...proceeding which named Sant’Anna as defendant. The document describes Sant’Anna as a free married man of mixed race who painted maps and created perpetual lunar calendars. Over two decades before producing...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...dollars annually to the city's local economy.8"2015 Military Economic Impact Study" (San Antonio, TX: Department of Government and Public Affairs, accessed July 1, 2021), https://www.sanantonio.gov/Portals/0/Files/OMA/EconImpact/2015SanAntonioMilitaryEconomicImpact.pdf?ver=2017-02-15-142835-893. Although contemporary San Antonio's diversified...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...eye to local political hierarchies, economic conditions, and reputations. They could be suspended and reassigned. In the Age of Emancipation, in places like Santiago, free or semi-free Afro-descendant peasantries led...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...of our time."10John Kirtley, "Facing a Harsh Truth When Fighting for a Bipartisan Cause," RedefinED, May 20, 2011, https://www.redefinedonline.org/2011/05/facing-a-harsh-truth-when-fighting-for-a-bipartisan-cause/; Katie Nielsen, "How School Choice Helps Advance Martin Luther King's Legacy,"...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...was to prevent freed slaves from becoming free labor, people able to sell their labor as workers. The passing of the Codes was an attempt to continue slavery. In the...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...continuing her marriage to Barbour, so he forbade the freedman from trespassing on his property and shot at him when he did. Poe brought Barbour before the Freedmen's Court, arguing...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Central Plains 20 (Summer 1997): 102-115. On the "Free Labor" concept more generally and its relation to race, see Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican...