Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...going to die, but he managed to escape. He came to Pittsboro, North Carolina, where our farm was. We worked with him and taught him to drive. Hope gave him...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Thing in the Face: Slavery, Race, and the Commemorative Landscape in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865–2010," Journal of Southern History LXXVIII, no. 3 (August 2012): 639–684. The market is a reminder that...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...hospitals that dominated the southern healthcare landscape in the early twentieth century gave way to structures of glass and steel containing hundreds of hospital beds, huge clinics, and multi-million dollar...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...one another. A soundscape loop presents a range of first person commentaries, including WPA oral histories, about slave sales. In its new location, the sack is hung entirely vertically, with...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...in turn, helped shape the development of ideas about American exceptionalism. Incendie du Cap [Burning of Cape Francais], Saint-Domingue, 1820. Frontispiece by unknown creator. Originally published in Saint-Domingue, ou Histoire...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...associate professor of English at Miami University of Ohio where she teaches early American literature, culture, and environment. She is the author of Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...interment. Burial practices and sites in the United States have become more restrained and conservative with graveyards being replaced by memorial gardens. Designed to facilitate streamlined landscape maintenance, these large...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...post-apocalyptic industrial landscape. In many of these scenes,the members of Goodie Mob are joined by others, forming a multigenerational portrait of friends, colleagues, and family. These images of all-black social...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...outside Annapolis, Maryland. These private, planned vacation communities served as an escape for Washington and Baltimore's brand of Jim Crow. They also served as exclusive private domains for the relatively...