Social Justice Environmentalism
..."community control" in urban areas. In their call for self-determination, black nationalists took up the slogan, "Free the Land."4Alondra Nelson, "The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter," American Journal of...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...the Spring and Summer of 1874" (i). Along with Scribner's publishers and illustrator J. Wells Champney, King aimed to provide "the reading public a truthful picture of life in a...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...Katrina and the ways that the crisis itself magnified the long-term consequences of government disinvestment in such critical needs as infrastructure, social programs, and services. I begin with a brief...
Deep Ellum Blues
...shacks, often with trees in the front and backyard gardens, sometimes even a chicken or two, along with the odd public housing project, small and squat, built around a desolate...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...this country," concluded Johnson. "We're a long way from the Weeping Time, but we have a long way to go." Marker commemorating "The Weeping Time," Savannah, Georgia, July 2008. Photograph...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...to longstanding neighborhoods with rich histories and deep organizational ties to this space, it may appear as if these Mexican and other Latino newcomers are unlikely to remain for long...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...and Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Sharon Bridgforth is a writer and activist, and a recipient of the Doris Duke Performing...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...