Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...want to be in that number."14Edwin Bocage, as quoted in Various Artists, Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album (Nonesuch Records, 2005). Nick Spitzer, Eddie Bo, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. A...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, and across the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi to New Orleans. Blacks regarded these communities as vital sites of leisure, relief from wage labor, business opportunities, and—even if too...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...equity by stopping current, as well as preventing future and repairing historical, oppression of frontline and vulnerable communities. Global Climate Strike in London, England, September 20, 2019. Photograph by Kristian...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...The "slave market" became the focal point for the 1964 St. Augustine Movement—a clash between nonviolent protestors and segregationists—prior to President Lyndon Johnson's signing the Civil Rights Act.2Dan R. Warren,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...stopped at the border. David Romtvedt and John Lane (in hat) as they drove cross country, Springfield, Illinois, 1978. Then in the summer of 1978 I left Spartanburg, South Carolina....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...of dat 'possum but it warn't often dey let us have none."18Interview with Anderson Furr in Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...of ten books on Native literature, dealt with issues of nationalism as early as 1989 in The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Without many other...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...public health emergencies—as well as in non-pandemic times—were long overlooked or chronically under supported by virtue of the agency's own strategic planning, programmatic priority setting, and discretionary funding decisions. In...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...to describe Atlanta as an urban space characterized by its "sense of placelessness"—a "nonplace," if you will. Indeed, in her final exchange with the Fugitive chorus, the poet-speaker's "nonbelonging and...