North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...structure of most ads is uniform, some offer deeper insight into the global system of slavery. This 1775 ad from Wilmington, for example, details the escape of a slave named Quamino...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...has transformed the social, cultural, and economic landscape of the US South since the late 1980s. Mexicans make up approximately 60 percent of the Latino population in the South; Central...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...South Part 7: Fostering integration and homeland ties within Latino Catholic spaces Part 8: The transformation of the religious landscape. *Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta was sponsored by...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...its escape from secondary education. As all of those in our noble profession know, even the most starry-eyed believer in the power of education sometimes loses control of the classroom,...
Congregation
Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755 Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here. National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...suggests that they go to the bar, which they do.35Weathers, Shitkickers, 44. In early 1960s San Antonio, the bar remains a necessary distraction and needed escape. Weathers's prefatory words to...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...inscape, or individuation, sounds so close to terror you'd confuse the two, as if the finest and the rarest blend would come with just a hint of fear or pain,...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...by Francis Nicholson. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, loc.gov/resource/g3860.ct000734/. Information connecting the peoples of this this colonial landscape also pushed them apart—most apparently when the...