A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...can't bear to look at and think about for more than the length of a television news report or tweet, yet we continue to seek out the next great scare...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...that she calls "l'homme-plante" (human-plant), an agency that resists forces of slavery and colonial discourse by its vegetative and receptive attitude.3Suzanne Césaire, The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941–1945), trans....
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...theories," reject tradition, and look to the future. "We are most like Jefferson," she explained, "not when we repeat parrot-like the principles he enunciated, but when we apply these great...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...the last thirty years," she began. "He is an individual who has fought for freedom at great personal sacrifice, who has bettered the lives of tens of thousands of American...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the Ohio. Inevitably, one of the primary commodities transported along the river were slaves themselves. As a slave-trading highway, the Ohio brought greater visibility to the more odious elements of...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...history projects about underrepresented race, class, gender, and labor histories in the South Carolina Lowcountry and the interconnected Atlantic World. This inclusive approach to Lowcountry history promotes greater awareness and audience...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...school board policies, overall school performance, and "ostensibly unrelated" issues such as population growth and the Great Recession "brought about a change in public attitudes on school assignments" and a...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
Review In 1931, an all-white jury in Birmingham, Alabama, sentenced Willie Peterson to death for a mysterious attack that left two white women dead and a third critically injured. The...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...When interpreted thoughtfully and alongside other historical materials, Mary Black's collection can convey the values and experiences of her family, beginning with the arrival of her great-grandparents in the Carolinas...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...facilitate destruction of the ecological base and subsistence practices of Appalachian agrarians. Title map of the coal field of the great Kanawha Valley, West Virginia, 1867. Map by John S....