Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...jacks and propping them on stilts, bricks, or concrete supports. These methods of building support and repair, while seemingly primitive and experimental in the United States, are familiar and used...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Mitchell family lore, supported by US census records, asserts that Henry Mitchell was in fact born in 1883, not 1886. Yet, as had long been openly discussed among Oxford's African...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Kenneth Reynolds, Linda Shkreli, Layla Soileau, Louis Toliver Additional Production Assistance: Melodie Carbuccia, Penelope Dane, Catherine Tillson Acknowledgments We gratefully acknowledge the support and interest of The Bureau Wallonie-Bruxelles en...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...they are able to switch capital into the tertiary circuit and expand infrastructure that supports knowledge-rent taking” (19). Research universities, with their wealth of knowledge labor, scientific infrastructure, and public-supported...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...actually cloaked strong support for racial apartheid (4–5). Jackson, Mississippi, downtown panorama, August 1, 2009. Photograph by Christopher Meredith. Creative Commons License CC-BY 2.0. Dupont chronicles the activities of the...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
Essay Another Mother's Day has come and gone and still no officially supported memorial honors the Freedom Riders at the site where civil rights workers braved the vicious firebombing of...