No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...the West Columbia Wal-Mart are Russian immigrants. . . . They do all the cleaning and the maintenance. They come in in crews. So there's a strong Russian population in...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...region at the crossroads of American geography on the eastern seaboard. They were confident that the rush to build railroads "cannot fail to convey toward the seaboard." Indeed, they expected...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...schooling and, more broadly, in overturning Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark opinion that promised the end of racial segregation in public education. The Court ruled in Espinoza...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...in the Atlantic World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017); Christopher D. E. Willoughby, "Running Away from Drapetomania: Samuel Cartwright, Medicine and Race in the Antebellum South," Journal...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Rutgers University Press, 2011), 11. Black civilian on horseback, The Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Cyclorama painting by the American Panorama Company, photographed by Michael Page. The only Black...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Essay (Showing Historical Boundaries) Discovering Deep Ellum Driving through other parts of the city of Dallas itself produced another and more unsettling effect: neighborhoods that were certainly not rural, but...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...decorations in Mount Zion. We are grateful to Carlton Fletcher, Fath Davis Ruffins, Russell Smith, Ibrahim Sundiata, and Jay Ball for many interpretive insights into this narrative. Many thanks to...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...Lay not up treasure on earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal. Lay up treasure in heaven, where moth and rust doth not...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...sculpture was placed on a high pedestal. This challenge and response was a minor skirmish in the long-running and largely one sided contest between historical narratives chronicled in Denmark Vesey's...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...depicts Appalachia as a wild and rural refuge from urban and suburban development. But this first Frazer photograph disrupts its own image of Appalachia as simple, rural refuge by including...