Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Atlas of World Maps. Map by United States Army Service Forces, Army Specialized Training Division. Originally published in Army Service Forces Manual M-101 (1943). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...her professional skills in the service of grassroots organizations whose members have attempted to learn what petroleum-based chemicals are doing to their land and bodies. A valuable addition to this...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
Review There's a gripping scene in Arthur Jafa's award-winning film, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, in which he pairs the image of a small group of African American boys acrobatically...
The Chesapeake Bay
Introduction The Chesapeake Bay's environmental history is complex and well-documented. Over four-hundred years of textual records document the Bay's environmental history, and over ten-thousand years of archaeological, geological, and biological...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...© United States Postal Service. By reframing the history of coastal Carolina, Mulcahy succeeds in rendering "both the Lowcountry and the islands less anomalous within the larger context of colonial...
Social Justice Environmentalism
Essay In a 2017 essay, National Museum of African American History and Culture director Lonnie Bunch noted that, like much of black history, environmental activism by people of color is...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...formerly been. Louisiana, like Cuba, also experienced the "same cycle of expansion and intensification of slavery after 1800 which had occurred in Saint-Domingue between 1750 and 1794," and many planters,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...light. I was headed to a religious service at Georgetown University that would acknowledge the trauma of a massive slave sale in 1838, a deal that shored up the finances...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...and family networks. In their online format, the Ghost Maps combine multiple disciplinary methods "in order to let quantitative ('social science') data speak to, interact with, and be enhanced by...