The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...majority-minority district in order to "enhance Virginia's compliance with the Voting Rights Act." State-level redistricting plans enacted in Alabama, Texas, and Florida since the 2010 US Census are also being...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...General Eric Holder and the Obama administration set in process actions that would reinstate the voting law preclearance in Texas, bringing a case to a federal court in Texas that...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...if they agree to relocation. On March 29, Exxon-Mobil's sixty-five-year-old Pegasus pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas. The town, which lies twenty-five miles northwest of Little Rock, was inundated with an estimated 210,000...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...longer understanding of the Latinx migrations to/through US southern spaces that have contributed to shaping racial hierarchies, labor landscapes, and diverse migrant communities. As two books concerned with individual and...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...Changes focusing upon prisons and prisoners; and Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (2002, with Winson Hudson). Curry is also the producer/researcher for the documentary film The Intolerable Burden...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...that a single-minded focus on southern gospel's rigidly conservative façade obscures the music's hidden transgressive—and transcendent—qualities. His book begins with two critical questions: one personal, the other more expansive. First,...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...A July 1951 Klan-organized "Mammoth Motorcade," protested African Americans moving into the Carver Village apartment complex in Miami. White threw rocks from cars and shot an African American man.4Teresa Lenox,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...missteps. Having such a recognizable star come in and play a kind of angel figure distracts us from both the miracle of Northup's staying alive and the power of Ejiofor's...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...neighborhood cleanup, rats, empty lots, and community health. Spears examines urban activism by African American and other minority populations in more detail later, but by putting this section right before...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...in quilts prior to the era. Chrome orange, a mineral dye, was frequently used as an accent in red and green quilts in the mid-nineteenth century. Construction: Mary's quilt is...