Love and Death in Mississippi
...For example, medical and funeral providers have the legal right to deny care and service to LGBTQ individuals even as such a denial violates the Hippocratic Oath and similar ethical...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...dead, initiators of migrations, primordial inhabitants of natural formations, facilitators of natural disasters, and catalysts of illness. Brown concedes that captive Africans likely did not transport beliefs about the simbi...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...6, 2014, A1; Dexter Mullins, "Mississippi to Make History by Opening Civil Rights Museum," Aljazeera America, October 23, 2013, http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/23/mississippi-civilrightsmuseumtomakehistory.html. For more on civil rights tourism see, Owen J. Dwyer...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...racial discrimination cases with Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP's national legal director and lead attorney for the plaintiffs in Brown, who later to became a justice on the US Supreme Court....
Local Color
...harnessing the genre's equal potential for irony to expose the blindness or self-serving motives of the master class. Local Color became America’s first national literature of race. It also became...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...people view archives as the special, almost private, playland of scholars and intellectuals—scholars who essentially critique art and other forms of historical, political, social and cultural production or who mine...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...paraphernalia from the civil rights movement, sold at the National Civil Rights Museum, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, March 31, 2013. Photograph of postcard courtesy of Erick Alvarado. © Erick Alvarado,...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...ignited the Caribbean and, in turn, revolution in Haiti petrified white people in the United States. "White racial communion," asserts Paulus, "trumped American ideological conflict between the Federalists and the...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Historical Associations' Albert J. Beveridge Award, the National Book Award, and the 2004 Bruce Catton Prize of the Society of American Historians for lifetime achievement, among other awards and recognitions....
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...generation who came of age during Jim Crow. Reed writes with a purpose—not to chronicle his own pivotal events, hardships, or personal demons, nor to proclaim general truths. Instead, he...