The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
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...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...de las Américas prize for his work, Bayamesa. Abel González Melo, Havana, Cuba. Photograph by and courtesy of Josep Maria Miró. González Melo's work spans two decades and covers multiple...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...producers, filmmakers, and journalists found inspiration and authenticity in the archival resources of the Schomburg. While he was living in New York City, Denzel Washington frequently disguised himself and came...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
...“Walt Whitman in Alabama” Text of Poems Referenced "In the Magic City," "From A Field Guide to Etowah County," "The Crowd He Becomes," "At Liberty (1961)," "At Liberty (1964)," "Substantiation,"...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...His poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Backwards City Review, and Southeast Review. Interview with...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...but multi-pronged effort has given us a fuller sense of activism that emerges from and addresses larger social and economic inequalities. What we call environmental justice is finally getting a...