The Black Belt
...sense — that is, to designate the counties where the black people outnumber the white. Black and white portrait of WEB Dubois, ca. 1918. Photograph by C.M. Battey. Courtesy of...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Relationships," American Speech 55, no. 1 (Spring, 1980): 17–35. Overall this is a fine book: balanced, comprehensive, and well written. The story of colonial America needs to be reinserted into...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Constance Fenimore Woolson, ca. 1887. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image in public domain. Bottom, Portrait of George Lamming, May 24, 1955. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten....
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...treats this icon of the kneeling supplicant slave in chains in chapter 1 of her Women & Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture and who notes that such figures...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Disfarmer: The Heber Springs Portraits, 1939–1946 (Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976); Ann Hawthorne, The Picture Man: Photographs by Paul Buchanan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993); David Moltke-Hansen,...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...to Use Covid-19 Relief Funds to Build Prisons," CNN, October 1, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/politics/alabama-covid-relief-prison-bills-signed-governor-kay-ivey/index.html. Despite the uneven distribution of aid, many people, specifically children and elders, moved above the poverty line...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...brick by brick."5Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 148. For residents whose homes were built—brick-by-brick—by fellow African Americans, from conception to financing to development...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
Review Photographer unknown, Unidentified miners from southwest Virginia, 1930s. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Amid the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, numerous US cities and states are reexamining their...