Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...religion, and gender leadership styles of reconciliation. We hoped the summer's experiences would bring us better understanding of our societies, with an awareness of common and distinctive factors affecting the...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...status and—even better—bestsellerdom, Stein had spent three decades searching for a form and a format in which to present her writing that might help readers beyond her tiny coterie of...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...of the story comes from the fact that people like Hodding Carter knew better, were truly horrified by the viciousness of the crime, but were not so horrified that they...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...that this voting rights case was primarily a competition between the constitutional right of citizens to vote and the "constitutional equality of the States"—and held that states' rights won.2Coyle v....
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...age of the youngest Scottsboro defendant, twelve-year-old Roy Wright, “I could be bitter or better.” The nearly all-black gospel choir from Alabama A&M in Huntsville, rocked the church with “I’ve...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...had "betrayed the very name of Jesus." Kesicki offered a sweeping apology, confessed the sin of enslavement, and sought "on bended knee" forgiveness for the Jesuits' entire participation in slavery....
Editors
...Allison Dorsey, Swarthmore College Wilma A. Dunaway, Virginia Tech Connie Eble, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Rebecca Edwards, Vassar College Michael Elliott, Emory University Beth English, Princeton University Keona Ervin,...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Celdrán has premiered Ten Million at important festivals all over the world. More and more the border between the outside and the inside, between going and staying, is more permeable...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Voting Rights Act, Justice Kegan's dissent suggests she knows law better than history. She mentions "a march from Selma to Birmingham." It was in fact the Selma to Montgomery march...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...a mediating role between the interests of the coal industry and the actions of the state. It facilitates apparent distance between corporate power and public policy, and seems to ground...