Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...at USC that will explore changing race relations in the US South and Southwest About George Sanchez George Sanchez is Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
Essay Canal Street, Separating the Old from the New City, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Reminders of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal are hard to miss in many American...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...cityscape.10I am grateful to my friend and colleague, Professor Naïma Hachad, who helped me brainstorm during and after the exhibit and enriched this piece with her insights. We ran towards...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...is currently an associate professor of English and holds the Paul & Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair at University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her published books include Blood Run (2006), Off-Season City Pipe (2005), Rock, Ghost,...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...such, don't see yourself as part of the great working-class of the world. The huge Daimler-Chrysler plant just down the road, looming in the scrawny countryside like an alien city,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...