A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
Review There's a gripping scene in Arthur Jafa's award-winning film, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, in which he pairs the image of a small group of African American boys acrobatically...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...the political processes are equally open; that is, whether members of a protected class have the same opportunity as others to participate in the electoral process and to elect candidates...
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,...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...had only 1,900 Mexicans, with an overall Hispanic population of just three percent, mostly made up of Hondurans with many having middle class status. John Logan, a Brown University demographer,...
And the Prize Goes to...
...its contest winner. Journals used in Engelhardt's class, courtesy of the author. Throughout the semester, the class read one to two books weekly (all published after 2010), working collaboratively to...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...sold only cattle—as many as three thousand steers a day from up to a hundred miles away. As business dwindled—and only months after I documented it in 2009—Simpkins decided to...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...week, all Duke classes would move on line, and with that began a collective retreat into the virtual and isolated refuge of distance. We would stay at six feet and...
"Aint that Something?"
...Fiction Since 1878: "Appalachia in the national geographic imaginary . . . has largely remained an essentialist vision of the region—white, rural, poor or working-class mountain people with highly specific...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the class at the top that enforces inequality and reaps the benefit from our work? If we are divided from each other, the injustices continue—the unequal distribution of wealth,...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Endless Amusement," on topics ranging from local laws and coop design to breed selection and health issues. The class was over-enrolled, and it had a waiting list. And so it...