A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Shunning talking heads, Jafa recorded audio and visual components separately and then paired them together during post-production. Such an approach allows for "an extended freedom in both sound and image"...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...arsonists went to work at the Kessler's Mill and Pine Crest Inn facilities in Roanoke, Virginia, and the Pacific Beach Club, when legal maneuvers proved insufficient. Four young African American...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...photographs. No image became more iconic, no place more marked by photographs than Birmingham in the days of Bull Connor's hoses and dogs. Martin A. Berger's fine book, Freedom Now! Forgotten...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...against allowing the presumed simplicity of white freedom versus black slavery to obscure the "murkiness of race and class relations in colonial Georgia" (39–40). Georgia from the latest authorities, 1810....
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
Threshing crew in the Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August 1936
...Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August, 1936. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-000720-M3. Carl Mydans, Threshing, Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August, 1936. Library of...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Virginia, the Sea Board Air Line Railway ran along the South's eastern coast, terminating in Florida. Despite its name, it owned no airplanes. Before the days of air travel, "air...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...from 2000 to 2005. He is the author of Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (2010) and Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...the end of a trolley line. Although these parks often offered free admission, trolley companies still benefited financially from their existence in several ways. The park's location at the line's...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...for agricultural livelihood under the pressures of globalization. Ag and Anthro How did your experiences farming and working as an agricultural organizer in Virginia and North Carolina lead to the...