Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a documentary film based on Campbell's life. It was produced at the University of Alabama and broadcast on PBS. Campbell is survived by Brenda Fisher Campbell, his wife of sixty-seven...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
Atlanta Temple Bombing On the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, shortly after 3:30 a.m., an explosion ripped through the Reform Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Although no one...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...spaces of "words without language"—spaces "peopled and empty at the same time." The search for the Ten Broeck Race Course attempts to "lend an ear" to the "dull sound[s] from...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...of desegregation, saying in effect that it would be safer and wiser to begin—and shift the blame to "a meddling federal court"—than to refuse and risk being held in contempt...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...to include in their curricula courses in the fine arts, such as film, creative writing, visual art, music (its history, composition, and performance), theater, etc. Then, too, I am convinced...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...that there were some inequities there…. I learned that at a very early age."2"The Revolutionary Will Not Be Televised: A Film About Gil Scott-Heron," 2009 (unreleased). Scott-Heron's love and respect...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...despite difficult conditions. Dotter's work chronicles other concerns in these coalfield towns, particularly problems of health — obesity, tobacco use, and disability. Due to automobile accidents, work-related accidents, and substance...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
Review In 2001, lifelong Anniston, Alabama, resident Ruth Mims was called to testify in a lawsuit against the multinational corporation Monsanto. Monsanto had owned and operated a chemical manufacturing facility...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...cigarettes to Dominick Potania—"a member of one of New Orleans' best families"—as Potania was leaving the restaurant, giving them reason enough to enter.60"Restaurant Man Sold Marihuana, Police Charge," Times-Picayune (New...