Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Sublime: Ecology and Resistance in the American Plantation Zone," is an expanded version of a piece Allewaert published in PMLA.2Monique Allewaert, "Swamp Sublime: Ecologies of Resistance in the American Plantation...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Plan of Splendid Property and Two Fine Lots of Ground, Second District, March 12, 1860. Plan Book 005.018, New Orleans Notarial Archives. In the 1840s and ‘50s, New Orleans was...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...too close to home, the horror that helped build the United States and continues to haunt us. Solomon Northup in his "plantation suit," ca. 1853. Engraving from Solomon Northrup's Twelve...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...outside Annapolis, Maryland. These private, planned vacation communities served as an escape for Washington and Baltimore's brand of Jim Crow. They also served as exclusive private domains for the relatively...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...momentary experience of freedom from plantation slavery inevitably led to his creation of a unique cultural space, but we have no evidence of his attendant development of identity derived from...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...that although lit had failed to detonate. Four months later, on February 11, 1958, unidentified assailants planted thirty sticks of dynamite outside Temple Emanuel in the neighboring city of Gastonia....
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...