A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...documented how African American activists and reformers grappled with state-sanctioned punishment in the Progressive Era. Her analysis of the criticisms of convict leasing put forth by Selena Sloan Butler and...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
Review In the years surrounding the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision, state legislatures as well as county and municipal governments in the US South hastily built new "colored"...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...2009 voted out the Republican majority. Partisan disputes continued, but signs of the old consensus returned: voters approved an $810 million construction bond in 2013 (the local Republican Party was...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...of the "moral community" of border people. Some worked intentionally to evade criminal sanction, not revenue collection. Cattle rustlers in the late nineteenth century, along with bootleggers and drug runners...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...footprints left by immigrants, Brownsville, Texas, 2010. Photograph from Susan Harbage Page and Inés Valez's photo essay "Residues of Border Control," April 27, 2011. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Rawson: One of...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...threat of espionage grew, Oak Ridgers monitored neighbors for signs of disloyalty or weakness. Even Santa Claus was not above suspicion. Learning to live in Oak Ridge meant adopting a "culture...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...relations (despite the fact that "Mexican and Mexican Americans were in the majority" (4) in El Paso). The author does not mention the Santa Ysabel massacre of 1915, the El...
Zircon
...measured rate. The zircon lasts when mother rocks around have crumbled, worn away to sand. It keeps the fingerprints of isotopes from clouds of the original primordial dust, right here...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...the surface of the water. I wondered—could this light be the souls of those that did not disembark? Wall of the Santiago de la Gloria Battery, Bay of Portobelo, Panama, September...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...family as "category-3 types, I suppose, sans the 'bohemian,'" referring to his four-phase cycle, to himself as a member of the bourgeois-scum class, and echoing the official designation of Hurricane...