The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...is worth noting at the outset that the broader trope to which Ms. Williams alluded has a long and rich history in North America: for centuries, many have wryly juxtaposed...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...the urban industrial belt that stretches from Danville, Virginia, through Charlotte, North Carolina, and Greenville, South Carolina, and extends to Birmingham, Alabama. This swath of piedmont plateau at the base...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Nicholas R. Spitzer adds that it is north of, and connected to, the Caribbean. Louisiana (reference map), Louisiana Acadian region, 2002. Map by US Geological Survey. Courtesy of the Perry-Casañeda...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...descendants, faced with the growth of northern abolitionist sentiment, closed ranks behind the idea that slavery was a positive good. Southern physicians—themselves often planters or from planting families—came to their...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...excluding racial minorities.6Carolyn Finney, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014); Miles A. Powell,...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...the murder, funeral, trial, and their aftermath. More precisely, Mace argues that there were significant differences in how print media covered the events based on section of the country—Midwest, Northeast,...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...staged a mock "auction" of the two young women to raise funds.4Josephine F. Pacheco, The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape Attempt on the Potomac (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...in Northwest Austin Municipal Util. Dist. No. One v. Holder, 557 US 193, 203 (2009), emphasis added by Roberts in the Shelby County v. Holder decision. In the US Constitution, the words...