Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...care, while many working-age coalminers have been laid off, leaving them with few, if any, healthcare options. UMWA surface mine welder repairs dragline bucket. Boone County, WV, 2005. Working at...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751–1840, http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS. Advertisement for a runaway slave, North Carolina Gazette, May 5, 1775. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database. While the...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...a heart hungering after yet more vengeance. For how many times has he seen the dreams of his youth destroyed? How many times has experience taught him that his good...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...we changed names slightly. But we knew that there were so many people of Latin American descent in the area, and the fact that we didn't give any addresses where...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...and young Latinas/os returned to everyday life, many saw their futures as lying outside of Ybor City’s cigar industry. McNamara follows the ways in which Latinas/os with roots in Ybor...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...than living Black people. In several states polling officials were all white, and ballots were numbered in such a way as to permit white officials to know how Black voters...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...accepted in many other countries in the world. The problem is that for so many years, too many years, our own government has planted seeds of hate towards homosexuals, and...
Mississippi Delta
...recommended resources and related publications. For access to the original layout, paste this publication's url into the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine and view any version of the piece that predates August 2017....
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...was many things to us," he recalled. "Preacher, prophet, picker, poet. He had an uncanny way of making whoever gathered around him feel like they were part of the mix,...