St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...protests. Largely ignored by locals and overlooked by tourists, the market sits empty in the center of America’s oldest continuously inhabited, European-established city. Despite its changing purposes, it remains best...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...the Business of Broadcasting in America. (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1980), 153. "Unlike other major technologies—automobiles . . . or trains—that move us from one place to another,"...
Religion and the US South
...habitation. As the South became a predominantly biracial society in the nineteenth century, the coming together of the religions of western Europe and western Africa provided the essential background for...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
A General Note to Readers: I have intended this essay to be read and the films viewed together. Rather than narrate the films, I have presented an analysis of them...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...political behaviors within Latin America were variations on their European or North American counterparts. Across Latin America, Afro-descendant peasants took manifold paths to reach rural worlds of freedom. Some were...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Press, 1995); Dewey Grantham, The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds (New York: Harper Collins, 1994); and James Cobb and William Stueck, eds., Globalization and the American South...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...and Refinery, Mississippi River Corridor, Louisiana, 1998 from Petrochemical America, photographs by Richard Misrach, Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff (Aperture, 2012). © Richard Misrach, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...colonial pasts as the products of various historical forces from Europe, Africa, and the rest of the Americas that converged upon the Caribbean basin following the Columbian voyages of the...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...años en África (1975–1988), con fuerzas militares cubanas sobre el terreno en nombre de la liberación de Sudáfrica durante ese tiempo. La asociación militar terminó con la independencia de Namibia...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...de inmigración de América Latina que ha cambiado el panorama social, cultural y económico del sur de los Estados Unidos desde finales de los años ochenta. Los mexicanos componen aproximadamente...