Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...of torture against African American women enacted a spectacle of daily violence that haunted black female convicts. Haley also tackles the silence of the archives as representing the "likely belief...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
Commentary An online search using the keywords "COVID-19" and "lessons" turns up an astonishing volume and assortment of information: thousands of commentaries, news stories, scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs. The...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...in the most unlikely scenarios. McQueen understands that the limits of this search will not be reached when horror films get too bizarre, but rather when they depict the horror...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...History of Environmental Racism in the United States (New York: New York University Press, 2015); Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of defenses. Traveling on a ferry boat with his grandmother, Reed asked her why chicken wire had been strung between the segregated seating areas. "Well, you see," she stage-whispered, "a...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...fair, just place, but I continue to search, hoping and believing that there’s a place for me.”4Shepherd, “To Make Me Who I Am,” Orpheus in the Bronx: Essay on Identity,...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...1, 54–80. Spatially, writes Lowe, the circumCaribbean "embraces the coastal Gulf and the Caribbean, as well as the islands that dot the seas and the western Atlantic" (xi). Lowe moves...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...for any reason (even if the mistake is the fault of a voting official), and prohibits civic groups from collecting sealed ballots. Alito's opinion damages the ongoing protection of voting...