Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...In Crystal City, the site of a major Mexican American struggle, blacks "comprised only 2 percent of the population, or less than two hundred people," Behnken explains. "Few blacks traveled...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Selections should engage with space and place, either through specific geographical sites or imagined geographies related to the U.S. South. All proposals should be sent to Series Editors Sarah Melton...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
Review I came to Brett Gadsden's work with some doubts of how and why the state of Delaware merited its own local study, and with growing apprehension about the proliferation...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Review In this impressive volume edited by Cécile Vidal a collection of historians seek to recover a "marginalized" past (16) within American history. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...feeding runaways frequently required theft, which risked penalties ranging from a whipping to sale. Confrontations between slaves and runaways were often confrontations between neighbors and fugitive strangers. Indeed, plantation records,...
Darkly
...if light swept from the channel or the opposite shore. The sky is empty, and the river's bent like a question too close or too far away to read. "Darkly"...
The Carolina Piedmont
...in these rural communities and nascent towns. "The Piedmont is another land," wrote North Carolina journalist Jonathan Daniels in 1939. "It has always been a more serious minded land. [It]...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...placement of young children within US homes was not a sign of their subservience to the United States but quite the opposite. The forms of knowledge their children could obtain in...
Welcome!
...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...also delves into the internal debates among brass bands regarding "tradition." While members of the "post-Civil Rights" or "hip-hop" generation have brought new fashions, sites of performance, and arrangements of...