A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb show the breadth of anti-Mexican violence in the US West between 1848 and 1928, Villanueva details what this meant for targeted individuals.1William D. Carrigan...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...to a self-imposed exile some twenty-five years ago, I live once again in West Virginia. Contrasts with the 1970s heyday of working-class activism are evident throughout the rural landscape of...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...the country, founded in 1772 (known today as the Dumbarton United Methodist Church).2The church was formerly located on Twenty-Eighth Street between M and Olive Streets, N.W. (formerly Montgomery Street between...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...where the African American women workers had gone on their lunch hours, about them and their children, about how they lived. I tried to remember just what it was the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...violators of safety and environmental law, with 5000 workers—who've been injured 4600 times since 1995? Who's stealing health and hands, legs, lives, from those workers? (Barstow) What about the people...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...University of Virginia Press, 2013); William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); and Michael J....
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...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...the fragmented stories of their lives in Africa: a moment when the slave catchers arrived in a village called Ndeer, of the women who put the stories of their lives...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...gospel music, including song lyrics, melodies, and live music experiences, has provided evangelicals with the tools to negotiate the tensions between past and present, sacred and secular, commercialism and piety,...
Residues of Border Control
...United States but also reflect the fate of those for whom the crossing meant imprisonment and deportation. Photographs taken at the border hint at the lives that migrants started in...