Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Since stations I contacted simply did not save masters of stories airing fifteen years before, I often used clips salvaged from Raymond’s VHS copies. The grainy quality of the video...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...such public recognition of their services to the community is essential to raising public and private funds to support their services. I'm convinced that producing and presenting exhibitions, concerts, theater...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...light. I was headed to a religious service at Georgetown University that would acknowledge the trauma of a massive slave sale in 1838, a deal that shored up the finances...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1916. Photograph by Bain News Service. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection [LC-B2-650-15], loc.gov/pictures/item/2014683112/. Markets for the opossum expanded to northern cities in...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
Introduction Many of the novels that we call plantation romances also bear a different name: we know them and see them discussed as "Anti-Tom novels," written implicitly or explicitly to...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...bureaucrats pressured local Texas medical authorities to change their restrictive smallpox inoculation policies. Texas's United States Public Health Service (USPHS) officials, however, defied the request to respect Mexican nationals and...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...racial differences continue to plague modern mental health services where Black and minority patients are over-diagnosed with psychotic disorders, underdiagnosed with depressive disorders, and continue to be underrepresented in service...
Bodies and Souls
...in San Francisco, California, where she works in independent film and online media. Herring began making films after graduating from Duke University. There, she collaborated with Andre Robinson in producing and directing...