Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...minority in India, in the mouths of political agitators, and on city walls, especially since the 1980s. "Those who wish to live in Hindustan will have to live like us...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...in Anniston since the 1930s, and growing up, Mims and her family—mother, father, and twelve siblings—lived right near the plant. Her parents farmed land near a drainage ditch that carried...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...The impact of the X (which I assumed at the time to mark a structure for demolition) was powerful—were these homes and lives being X'd out? What about those who...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Land We Live in, the Land We Left: Virginia’s People,” an exhibition at the Library of Virginia in downtown Richmond, curated by Lisa Goff and coordinated by Barbara Batson, draws...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Mutual Aid Groups During and Beyond the Pandemic," Frontiers in Psychology 12 716202, October 2021, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8563598/. However, as young Black people organizing in the South, my colleagues and I experience...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...response to the constraints placed upon their lives. Finally, Mary Williams' and Emily Clark's pieces vividly depict the sexual and marital cultures of Lower Louisiana, as well as the racially...
A City Divided
...She pointed to the many prominent families who once lived on Houston, including Walter White, the executive secretary of the NAACP. Real-estate agent Antoine Graves and builder Alexander Hamilton lived...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...speeches by abolitionist representatives, appalled that slavery and the slave trade were openly conducted in the nation's capital. The spring that construction began in earnest on the Smithsonian building saw...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...toiling in this county, who lived on the other side of paradise. They built this town and this college, going all the way back to slavery times. . . They...