Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...intellectual history, particularly around issues of race, religion, and politics. She is the author of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America (New York University Press, 2001)...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
...ethnic politics in the United States, is the author of The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America (New York: New York University Press, 2012). Daniel A. Pollock, a longtime resident...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...increasing rates of Latin American immigration to the Atlanta metropolitan area Part 3: Transnational migrant circuits between Atlanta and localities in Mexico and Central America Part 4: Situating Chamblee and Doraville as...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013); Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Knopf, 2014); and Edward E....
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...art, memory, cultural heritage, kinship and the family in southern Africa and in the US South. Acknowledgments Ethnographic and archival research on slavery and memory in Newton County, Georgia was...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, and many other books. For his work, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the American...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...Beyond Jim Crow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007); Beryl Satter, Family Matters: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009). On the...
Bodies and Souls
...located in Coahoma County, Mississippi. Created by Wikimedia Commons user Arkyan. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0. After making Waking in Mississippi, I moved to Boston where I spent four years...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...out-of-the-way places.”1 James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 8. Scott adduces as examples of...