Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...deeply rooted in the city and regional economic structure, as well as historic patterns of rural-urban migration and ties to agricultural and industrial development. Wanda Rushing, Wall painting in...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...the Southern Regional Council, the Georgia Council of Human Relations, and the Greater Atlanta Council on Human Relations. An eloquent critic of racial segregation, he had attracted national attention for...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...Director of the Southern Student Human Relations Project of the US National Student Association. She served as an advisor on the executive committee of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Tiber Creek, running along the Mall's northern boundary, had been transformed into the Washington Canal, running east from the Potomac River (where it entered the city at the area of...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...are with us, we will feed you; if not, we will kill you.” According to the investigations of two human rights commissions, the vast majority of human rights abuses—torture, assassinations,...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Besieged Terrain
...vistas. Erik Reece and James J. Krupa's The Embattled Wilderness: The Natural and Human History of Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future tells of a more ordinary-appearing, besieged,...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...full range of “human, all too human” behaviors, including fierce aggression at times, but also a love of their land and the life it affords them and an often complex...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, Slavery and Human Progress,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...has particular urgency for raced human beings. In their poems, raced subjects may come to embody genius loci; however, such embodiment makes it all that much harder for those subjects to...