Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...led the Cherokee Nation's resistance to removal, a campaign fought on multiple fronts: on Native lands, in political arenas, in the local and national press, and in federal court. When...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...yet they were also supposed to remain permanent youth whose social, political, and intellectual maturity was constantly deferred. Those who believed they could incorporate Indian people into the United States...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
..."culture" in order to avoid discussing the fiscal and political systems that reward some fantastically, while simultaneously forcing many people—those without developed professional networks, high-end degrees, and access to capital—to...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Atlanta's several ethnic enclaves for recently-arrived and settled immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and South America. Francisco hopes to work in Atlanta for two or three years and send money...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...has chosen to give this figure an African American face and not portray him as a featureless profile. The tableau reminds viewers that capital punishment in America imposes unequal racial judgment...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...the deterioration of the Refuge's ecosystem? What were some of these changes and the causes? Dimmitt: Almost all the causes are saltwater intrusion. And second, for ten or twenty years, is...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...poorer farmers were content to raise crops each year and clear enough to do it all over again, and they were cautious in buying into the capital-intensive treadmill. While prosperous...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...twentieth- and early twenty-first-century version of "Negro removal."3"Negro removal" was a phrase used to describe the disproportionate displacement of black people from neighborhoods targeted for urban renewal. "Urban renewal," writes...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...would later become the Confederacy" (4). In addition to traditional colonial sources, Dubcovsky delves into material culture, oral traditions, linguistics, and iconography to reveal how, from the pre-Columbian era to...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...There's also a parallel bar that shows the dates, which allows the user to move through an event by calendar date. Users can specify how they would like to encounter...