Reckoning with Enslavement
...the United States, rose to address the descendants. He wore a plain black business suit and Roman clerical collar. With an air of earnestness, he spoke slowly, like a pastor...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...in the Rocky River Presbyterian Church. The next year he married Craighead's eldest daughter, Agnes, and was himself installed as the minister at the Waxhaw Presbyterian Church in Lancaster County,...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...connotes originality, belonging, and rootedness. In drawing together diaspora and indigeneity to compass the complexities and ambiguities of indigenous peoples' lives, scholars of indigenous diasporas have closed the gap between...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...were low-income. The nation's second highest rate was found in New Mexico, where 68 percent of all public school students were low-income. This defining moment in enrollment in US public...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...circumscribed Atlantans' movements, opportunities, and potentials.4This section is excerpted from Wesley Chenault's "An Unspoken Past: Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History, 1940-1970" (PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2008), 1–37. Chenault...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Routes. See: Nick Spitzer, American Routes: Songs and Stories from the Road [Audio CD/CD-Rom] (Highbridge Company, 2008). Leidy Cook, Tremé Sidewalk Steppers, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010. At the same time,...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...by the economic and administrative power apparatus."1André Gorz, Ecologica (Paris: Galilée, 2008), 48. A turning point was reached fifty years ago. In 1972, the Club of Rome published the report...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...African Americans. As Eugene H. Berwanger has illustrated, "a large group of settlers was more anti-Negro than antislavery."11Eugene H. Berwanger, The Frontier Against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...adds that she will see the pro-paving residents of Shining Waters in hell before she allows them to destroy a road that had rich local significance (PK, 117). A Plague...