Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...menu offering ways to browse the journal's content organized by publication type, author, series/collection, or year of publication. Individual publication pages foreground accessibility through larger, more legible text and heading, improved...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...which could only be combated by keeping them actively at labor. The best way to prevent and treat their diseases was to keep them under control in the position for...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...conservationists were also eugenicists. White supremacy and nativism—hostility toward immigrants—were integral to the way many early conservationists understood their work. These ideas infused (and continue to infuse) debates about overpopulation,...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...(2006): 448–449. While Embry looked for ways of connecting the two histories and time periods, others, of course, looked for differences between the two experiences and histories. Meanwhile in New...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...response, we have been struck in viewing and re-viewing the film by the highly effective ways that the filmmakers and performers have found of enacting a range of painful and...
The Liminal Site
...on his way down—the Piedmont Virginia of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, all of whom would have been alive as he passed through—looks surprisingly like Birmingham's.4William Faulkner, Absalom,...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...that states’ rights rather than slavery led to war—and younger people are more inclined than their elders to think this way, contradicting all that their textbooks tell them. Secession balls,...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...History of Prejudice is to explore some of the circumstances and ways in which the matter of prejudice—"visible" and "invisible"—has shaped the history of African Americans and Dalits (or ex-Untouchables),...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...Triangular Trade: the innumerable captives thrown overboard after dying in transit during the Atlantic crossing and condemned to perish, away from ancestral lands and families that could offer funerary rites...