Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...life. On the banks of the Mississippi between Coahoma and Sunflower counties, sits Bolivar County and the city of Mound Bayou. Founded in 1887 near Chickasaw burial grounds by a...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...while at the same time exploring how through opera the former European empire may write, or better, sing back."6Guarracino, "Imoinda's Performing Bodies," 212–223. The "hybridized" or exotic version promised by Imoinda,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...black scholars and institutions committed to using their intellectual powers to create and support the development of a better world for black people are called to do. My work at...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...some material from the presidency of Martin Luther King, III (1997–2003). The records starkly display the differences in leadership styles, particularly between Abernathy and Lowery. Researchers can also chart the...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016); Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of defenses. Traveling on a ferry boat with his grandmother, Reed asked her why chicken wire had been strung between the segregated seating areas. "Well, you see," she stage-whispered, "a...