Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...Banned from choice and safe recreation sites, black swimmers were relegated to dangerously polluted waters and dangerous currents in cities such as Charleston, New Orleans, and DC. Drownings became tragically...
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Birth Right
...who choose midwife-assisted home or hospital births want to be able to have more control over their deliveries and want to be able to give birth naturally, the way female...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...want to be in that number."14Edwin Bocage, as quoted in Various Artists, Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album (Nonesuch Records, 2005). Nick Spitzer, Eddie Bo, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. A...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Merchants relied on the river as a connector to one another and a link to the European world but experienced it only as infrequent, transitory visitors. In contrast to both...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...poisonous pesticides are environmental battles, as are African American civil rights campaigns for equal access to recreational areas and to safe spaces in cities.1Lonnie G. Bunch III, "Black and Green:...
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...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignity for old or young. "Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till," Reed writes, "was murdered in nearby Mississippi on a family visit from Chicago in 1955 because he unknowingly violated a local rule...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...practice of experience. Lowe travels imaginatively through literary texts. Jelly-Schapiro travels literally to examine histories and cultures of the islands he visits. However, like King, both ask readers big, overarching...