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,...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...social disorder," to quote Berger.1Martin Berger, Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle (Berkley: University of California Press, 2013), 10. The images of the time often depicted activists as victims of...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...monograph entitled "That the People Might Live:" A Theory of Native American Elegy. Elvira Pulitano is an associate professor of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic State University. She is the...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...it for the first time since the 1870s. In 1930, New York was the most populous state, and California was only the sixth largest. By 1990, California had almost twice...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...are interested in opening up the U.S. to their cars—and are getting a boost from the falling dollar, since they can sell cars produced in the U.S. cheaper than they...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...and lieutenant governor; South Carolina's house speaker; Texas' attorney general and speaker; and Florida's attorney general and president of the state senate. The Florida legislature has become the first state...
Editors
...Reviewers Rob Amberg, Madison County, North Carolina Andy Ambrose, Tubman Museum Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University Mary K. Anglin, University of Kentucky Ray Arsenault, University of South Florida Mark...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
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...