On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...received a large donation of maps in 1812. Sant’Anna also would have had access to the Bahia Military Academy, where interested laymen like him could attend classes on military cartography....
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...committees, has been largely overlooked by historians. The class action suit, Strain v. Philpott, that defeated the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service's discriminatory policies has been relegated to a footnote. Welchel...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...young activists struggled to be treated as first-class citizens, The Mitch Thomas Show, Teenage Frolics, and Teenarama emphasized that black youth were worthy of being first-class consumers and teenagers.72On the...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...millennium, classes had spread from the University of Oklahoma to Oklahoma State, campuses where significant numbers of Creek students are enrolled. Martin's own work would expand tremendously with grammars, Creek-to-English...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...The Selected Shepherd, you present a generally equal number from each of his six collections, with a little bit more from Angel, Interrupted. What were you looking for as you...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...the coast, Theriot asserts broader spatial implications: developments in offshore drilling and wetland science around the world developed in and through the Gulf of Mexico. His account is largely descriptive,...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...he pursued with his characteristic vigor but could not realize due to a lack of institutional support and funds. Crossing the international bridge between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Mexico (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2006); Peter van Wyck, The Highway of the Atom (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010). Beginning with Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound and Paul Boyer's...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...