Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...in any location, be it 1920s Los Angeles or twenty-first century New Orleans, is a clear indication that those individuals intend to reside permanently in that location. Moreover, rooting a...
The Liminal Site
...to sit, the most liminal place in the whole liminal site. My physical pleasure—visual, auditory, and tactile—in the urban space is inseparable from my pleasure in the place from which...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as a "brilliant architect" in SCR ID # 1-8-0-16-5-1-1, Sovereignty Commission Online, Mississippi Department of Archives & History Digital Collections, http://mdah.state.ms.us/bugle/sovcom/, accessed December 1, 2006. Initially based in Jeffersonville, Indiana,...
Writing Appalachia
...of Appalachian literature that is comprehensive, reflects contemporary ideas about authorship and Appalachia, and brings readers well into the twenty-first century. That is what this book attempts to do. In...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007). It is salutary to occasionally violate these framing devices—their utility notwithstanding—in the interest...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...two in the percentage of the population living in public housing, number two in violent crimes per capita, number two in total crimes per capita, and number nine in the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...the most notorious terror methods of white ruling class interests—there was continued resistance. Well-known to many is the anti-lynching campaign of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, for instance. Born a slave in...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...as its government formally abolished caste distinctions and chattel slavery after it gained independence in 1821. Additionally, Mexico had engaged in a war with pro-slavery Anglo settlers in Texas during...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...members who comprise the Court's conservative wing on controversies of race, Justice Alito upholds Arizona law that invalidates a voter's entire ballot if it is cast in the wrong precinct...
The Crowd He Becomes
...the crush of lookers in cigarette smoke, in the breath of many lungs, common, innocuous, a cloud about to disappear. * Will stand imagining him split at each intersection, now...