Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...expand in academic disciplines beyond the boundaries of their origins set some fifty years ago as black studies, to extend beyond courses in literature, history, and the social sciences and...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...stark contrast of the two fabrics and the large scale of the triangles results in a very bold quilt, perhaps not a style typically associated with a middle-aged, unmarried woman...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...however, through acclimation and proper medical care. Southern bodies and diseases required a southern ("states-rights") medicine which included training in southern medical schools. Doctors trained at northern schools, especially if...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...interested in owning and restoring “old school” cars. At a small gathering of old school car enthusiasts at James Island County Park, Ancrum had noticed his fourteen year-old son's growing...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...1840. With its comprehensive focus, the project is a useful resource for scholars and students interested in the history of slavery and resistance. In addition to scanned advertisements, the database...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...troubling as that holding is, the opinion also constitutes a major, often ignored long-term impact on school desegregation. Today most students attending private schools are in religious schools, and most...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...they were still attached to a coffle line or penned up in a slave trader's jail. More recently, Calvin Schermerhorn investigates how enslaved Virginians attempted (sometimes successfully) to leverage to...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...know of only one white-authored account. The June 4, 1893, Atlanta Constitution reports that a Mr. W.D. Boggus of Covington has a number of curiosities on display in his place...