Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...disease. Weiner examines physicians' beliefs that climate and environment were imagined to influence southern bodies in ways that made them react differently to disease than northern bodies. The Deep South...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...racist constructions validated exclusionary actions, such as the demonization of the Chinese that rationalized the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Fevered Measures ends with the declaration that "Mexicans, Mexican immigrants, and...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...
Residues of Border Control
...Grande Valley, near Brownsville (USA) and Matamoros (Mexico). The photographs, part of her Border Project, depict no immigrants, only the dried out clothes that they left behind after making it...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...
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...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...been, can be, and should be learned? More lessons loom. Expect a deep dive Congressional investigation and blue-ribbon probes. Storytellers are weighing in with fictional chronicles. Booker Prize winner Ian...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...or recollect the absences of . . . the ones that made the journey."4Toni Morrison, "A Bench by the Road." For further information on MPCPMP visit middlepassageproject.org or the project's Facebook...