Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...I began this blog post, I thought I would dwell primarily on these sites of memory in Key West and the possibility they create for the living to connect with...
When the Border Crossed Me
...the two acres of ripe berries harvested. Soft small bramble fruits are especially vulnerable to heat and they weren't going to wait. Screenshot of the Border Odyssey companion website. I'd...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...in what some described as complete wilderness. Others arrived at railroad construction sites with boxcar quarters. Workers described the conditions—a combination of intense heat, lack of provisions, and heavy timber—as...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013); Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Knopf, 2014); and Edward E....
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...the ordinary. He wants us to rinse our eyes until we see, without prejudice, the exquisite poignancy of the seeming banalities of the everyday."6Glover, Michael. "Genius in Colour: Why William...
Birth Right
...in a university teaching hospital". Journal of Midwifery and Maternal Health 45(5), September 2000. See also: http://www.adph.org/healthstats/assets/vs08.pdf. Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, Still image from Birth Right, 2008. Midwives are a vital part...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...19, 2014, http://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/laff-review-arthur-jafa-conducts-multilayered-exploration-of-blackness-in-dreams-are-colder-than-death-159613/. Although two years have passed since my first viewing of Jafa's Dreams, Spillers's provocative statements, along with the film's powerful bridging of the lyrical and the sonic,...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Oral History Research Office, Notable New Yorkers collection, Session 15, page 359, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/fonerm/transcripts/fonerm_1_15_356.html, January 23, 1986. Hereafter cited as "Foner interview." For some workers in Roanoke Rapids, whether pro- or...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...to collaborate on a major site-specific installation inspired by the Gibbes' 150 year-old collection. Dr. Laurel Fredrickson, an art history Scholar in Residence at Duke University, authored the wall text...