Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...The Slaveholding Crisis: Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War, Hale's lurid images and graphic language resonated with many white southerners fearful about the lessons a free...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...either side of the Mason-Dixon line, the contemporary policing of racialized spaces—all can be understood not only as battle lines in freedom struggles but also as unacknowledged elements of urban...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...the flares and safety lights of apocalyptic refineries. It meant joining my father and uncles at sea, working on platforms. The closets in my parents' house tell the history of...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...New Deal (1930–1944), and Sunbelt (post-1945). Although he acknowledges that the boundaries between them are hardly distinct, Manganiello uses these periods to explore the individuals and groups who controlled riverine...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...serve as a "free" sediment diversion. Insidiously, a major cause of land loss—the industry's crisscrossing landscape of canals and its contribution to climate change and rising sea levels—is what calls...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...research, writing, and creativity established by Appalachian Studies. Those in the field need not worry that their hard-won insights will be lost or not attended to, because the next generation...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
Excerpt After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black...
The Carolina Piedmont
...a countryside filled with freed blacks, and appeals to "fight like men for our firesides." Bennett Place, Durham County, N.C. Because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to General William...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...following the jazz giant's death in Brooklyn earlier that year. High-culture mandarins weren't bashful about voicing displeasure with the name change, insisting there were better places to celebrate “jungle music”...
Residues of Border Control
...do not show encounters between Border Patrol officers and migrants, but they depict the rubber gloves and bullet casings. They do not follow immigrants into detention, but register the residue—detention...