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....
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...
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...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...still live in the closet, and many, the "evidence suggests," are married to women.2Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men are Gay?," The New York Times, December 7, 2013, accessed December...
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...
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,...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...They assert that on the Catholic side of the Haitian religious triangle of forces, the supernatural being who is believed to be most involved in the lives of believers and...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...the solution was obvious: white women were themselves partly to blame. They were leading unhealthy lives, exacerbated by the emotional influence of their reproductive systems. They were also endangered—as black...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
Essay A just-released report from the Southern Education Foundation—"The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation"—finds that more than 5.7 million children lived in extreme...