Deep Ellum Blues
...center city. African Americans were present in the Dallas area as slaves before the Civil War (97 out of a total population of 678 in 1860), but many more arrived...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...extends the peninsula—resembles a chain of islands. Every few miles, you can pull your vehicle into the center where convenience stations and fast food restaurants await you. These eight archipelagic...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
Series editor: Mary E. Frederickson, Emory University. Submission deadline: March 31, 2015. Questions: Contact managing editor Jesse P. Karlsberg. From Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, "The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...the next planned stop on the Atlanta Beltline: the Westside. In addition to the Atlanta University Center (AUC), the Westside is home to several black cultural centers, including The Hammonds House Museum,...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Reckoning with Enslavement
...race, religion, law, science, and history and with myriad other prejudices, doctrines, sentiments, and myths. Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., ca. 1800. Engraving by Casimir Bohn. Courtesy of the Library of...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Indies "likely inspired Gabriel [Prosser] and his fellow insurrectionists to secure emancipation through violence" (29). Like Washington and Louverture, Gabriel, when he led a slave rebellion in Richmond in 1800,...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...to define that uniqueness as the result of the interaction between local particularity and a wider web of connections" (3). Louisiana, with its location in the geographic center of the...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Than Death engendered a great deal of conversation among scholars in Black Studies. The buzz centered not just on its stellar cast of intellectuals but also on its formal qualities....
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...nonwhites from the record. Regardless of his singular focus, Jennison makes clear that by 1800, Georgia's conservative revolutionaries could broaden their perspective when confronted by the distressing message, reach, and...