The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...this neighborhood almo*]}*st a year after the storm were cryptic markings on each house, recording the progress of first responders down the streets. Large spray-painted Xs on every home, with...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...remarks at the graduation ceremony to contextualize his career. "Most likely you do not know that your classmate, Mr. Pigford, is one of the most important civil rights activists of...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...museum culture post-Katrina. Another comment, whose author notes he moved from Brooklyn to live in the Bywater after Katrina—more or less proving Campanella's schema—claims that "Bywater is more like Fort...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...sound, as he stood straight and hard, not leaning at all. She stopped. In the silence he saw his mother standing above and behind the lamp, casting a shadow on...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...to the rest of Indian Country—much of which has had reservation status for a century now—or does it do something more? Andrew Adams III: I guess I'll jump in quickly....
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Celestine Sibley was one of the most read writers in the southeastern United States during the last half of the twentieth century. Her columns—some ten-thousand during her career—appeared almo*]}*st daily...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...dispersed them, burned two police motorcycles, and looted more than forty stores along Main Street" (174–175). Whites sometimes used Mexican American claims of whiteness to stymie civil rights efforts by...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Franklin to Morse (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 257–58. While mailings fanned out across various states, it was in South Carolina that they were met with the most dramatic...
The Black Belt
...Coast port of Mobile. Stereograph of African Americans in a cotton field in Montgomery, Alabama, ca. 1860. Photograph by J.H. Holtzclaw. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,...