The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...with their fellow masters in places such as Cuba and Brazil; the assault on slavery was international, and the defense needed to be likewise. By the President of the United...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...include or address the needs of minority residents (23, 55–57). Mayorga-Gallo likens diversity ideology to colorblind racism,1Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Color Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...terms with the magnitude of coastal erosion and the need for restoration. But, in suggesting that the "building blocks are now set in place" (219), American Energy, Imperiled Coast fails...
And the Prize Goes to...
...seminar, “How to Study the South Today,” this exercise serves as the final step in a conversation about the scholarly tools needed to conduct intersectional research and produce multi-modal work....
Glocal Lounge
...and narrate how their everyday, local lives and spaces are dialectically bound to and enabled by global relations. Similarly the geography theorist and scholar Doreen Massey emphasizes the need to...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...interests and private profits over community needs and social justice initiatives.5Clyde Woods, "Katrina's World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source," American Quarterly 61, no. 3 (2009): 448. Bourbon...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...veterans' "Moses generation." "We've got to remember now that Joshua still has a job to do," he said. "There are still battles that need to be fought; some rivers that...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...conversation at Emory goes, I think we need to follow up with a discussion of how we might foster this kind of creative criticism. Heavily narrativised literary studies, the kind...
When the Border Crossed Me
...bloodied knee-length white coats and black rubber boots they'd worn that day in the nearby chicken processing plant, and said they had heard I needed help harvesting blackberries on my...