Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...plantations, in a sort of marginal space. Santiago was close enough to be subjected to some of the same policies as the plantation-dominated regions, but far enough to escape many...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...life, and landscape often resembled an album whose intended audience was also its subject. Each town and city seemed to have its acknowledged "picture man" or woman, people such as...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...illness that mercilessly depopulates our fertile landscape."57Mariano Ramirez, José Carbonell, Pedro del Valle, and González Martínez to Bailey K. Ashford, July 19, 1905, CA, box 5. For league members, the...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...One Year of Universal Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Has (and Has Not) Altered Arizona’s K–12 Landscape, Arizona Common Sense Institute, April 2024, https://commonsenseinstituteaz.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CSI_REPORT_ESA_GROWTH_APRIL_2024.pdf. It has been evident for years that wealthier...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...of the Caribbean Basin."3Capó, 7. Capó's Welcome to Fairyland interprets Miami as "linked to the Caribbean" and as part of a larger US landscape in a historiographical tradition of employing...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...migration into the region. Most current commentaries are on Hispanics, an important part of the Appalachian social and economic landscape to be sure, but Hispanics now run a distant second...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...the Super’s flood lights now circling us and flashin’ like a prison yard counter escape warden super packin' something else we’re past and out I look at Sadie she whispers...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...post-war landscape, this meant an attempt to impose the most extreme form of wage-slavery possible. But just as enslaved Africans had fought back from the moment they were kidnapped and...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
From Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968): I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. Images of all...