Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
An Excerpt from the Introduction Cover image based on Tu lugar, 2006. Painting by Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy. Throughout the nineteenth century, aided by railroads and steam technologies, industrial plantations...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...éxodo de las clases media y alta, que en su mayor parte aterrizaron en el sur de Florida y se quedaron. Después del Éxodo Mariel, la política de inmigración estadounidense...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...of work clothes on wash day") (PK, 198). Here, as in two of her other books, Ah, Sweet Mystery (1991) and Spider in the Sink (1997), Sibley puts forth tropes...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...reported that the number was optimistic, as just six percent of programming time went to news. Yet both local and national news broadcasts remained powerfully resonant. Local segregationists wanted a...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...perhaps the experience of total darkness is "only claptrap after all"—an underground version of some cheap carnival gimmick. After Nick leaves him alone, Fawcett describes visions before him, those "subjective...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Residues of Border Control
...the border, the photographer illuminates dimensions of this space that are hardly ever considered in a conversation that revolves around fortification, fencing, and security. The objects depicted can be identified...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...persistent, with the upshot that returns on the extraordinary time and effort so many CDC responders committed to their tasks fell well short of what would warrant use of all...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...is an excerpt from my forthcoming dissertation, "'Shake Fo' Ya Hood': Hip-Hop and Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans." The first day of September 2012 has arrived in usual fashion, with...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...and lieutenant governor; South Carolina's house speaker; Texas' attorney general and speaker; and Florida's attorney general and president of the state senate. The Florida legislature has become the first state...