The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...service stations float in the road's middle, serving as places of respite along the 264-mile expanse. It is as though you are riding the currents at a controlled seventy miles...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Texas Cherokees numbered several hundred while around five thousand western Cherokees settled in present-day western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Many of the 16,500 who still inhabited their ancestral homeland in...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...special their Appalachian farm was to our family and how rare my experience was. Even growing up in southwest Virginia, I remember having to argue with a couple of classmates...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
William Brown, Emory University Mary Odem, Emory University Ana María Diaz Burgos, Traductor Published: 12 July 2011 William Brown and Mary Odem, Niños bailando en el día de la celebración...
The Place of Appalachia
...scourge of OxyContin abuse in rural southwest Virginia and the drug traffic of Harlem. There are related, even more direct, linkages: "development" in rural Appalachian areas has at times taken...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
Jim Bunkley interview. Recorded in Geneva, Georgia, 1969. Bunkley discusses his life, music, and brief work in a medicine show in Southwest Georgia. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...The New Orleans Advocate, August 25, 2015. Pipeline from Southwest to Atlantic Coast, 1944. Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USW4- 029616. Without losing sight of technical details,...