Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...of our students spoke to children at the Tutwiler Community Center, which offers year-round activities for African American kids. Teachers brought out maps and the children tried to locate Northern...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
Introduction Cyrille Bissette (1795–1858). Print by François Le Villain originally published in Joseph Elzéar Morénas's Précis historique de la traite des noirs et de l'esclavage colonial, contenant l'origine de la traite, ses progrès,...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...that this project offers, "insight not only into conditions and lifestyles experienced by the slaves but also into the plantation economy."1Samantha Winer, "A brief history of slavery in North Carolina,"...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
Community Building in a New South City Atlanta offers a sharp perspective of the Black experience in the urban South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The emergence of its...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...with well-documented Irish, Italian, and Polish whiteness strategies, he might have done much to further a larger conversation about white racial formation and reformation. Instead, he offers on this matter...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...quest for redress through the workers' compensation system offers a related caution: the sprawling administrative machinery of the state, which presents the customary, sanctioned route for institutionalizing reform, entails embedded...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Review In this short book, distinguished political scientist Adolph L. Reed, Jr. offers remembrances from his early life below the Mason-Dixon line as a member of the last African American...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...the lessons to be learned. Notwithstanding his mystifying minimization of Trump's baleful role, Lewis's The Premonition offers a glimmer of hope for revelatory explanations and guidance. "After a catastrophic season, management...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...the place to go, I feel like the political process offers more ways to pursue tribal interests. We don't have control over the litigation that comes up about our sovereignty...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...also one for reclaiming lost heritage, which in turn offers the tools for exceeding the bounds of Eurocentric culture. The Atlanta showing opened at the High on June 26, 2011,...