The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...peasants were "hopelessly ignorant," with weak "bodily structures and facial expressions." The author feared that freed from the restraints of hookworm disease, and without the necessary political education to adequately...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to listen to the work and let the [objects] share what they are willing. For example, the passbook is very delicate and this was the only page that would naturally...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...main substance of the book: people. Misrach's photos are oddly devoid of human life. People are seldom his subjects, appearing in only three of the pictures in the book (only...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...and conflicted past. Although simple in its presentation, using mostly large poster board and glass cases with a variety of historical artifacts, the purposes and stories presented in the exhibit...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Professor Alexander Means, who briefly served as the college's president. The last time I looked at the tree with Ms. Williams, she sighed and quietly remarked, "How they loved Billy,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...the country and often differ markedly in character. Members concentrated their time and commitment on political causes rather than on jobs (much less careers), were downwardly mobile, lived communally, and...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...ca. 1850. Illustration by Étienne Carjat. Originally published in weekly journal Le Diogène. Image is in public domain. With its early publication date and its tragic portrait of slavery's atrocities and effects...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...remain a bit dubious about Hardwig's text selection principles. (That Kate Chopin is excluded from consideration here is baffling—especially given Hardwig's small sample size.) Finally, Hardwig struggles at times with...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...accounts of bondage, would hardly be expected to claim to be southerners and might understandably have identified themselves, once free, as radically "Different-From" the region where they had been denied...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...the University of Georgia. He is currently working on a book on Indian removal. Previous books include West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), A New Order...