Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...a simple three-part statement that argues for positive changes in the academic departments or programs that house these disciplines: An end to the actions that divide creative and critical/academic voices;...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...he declared, were separate species and nothing could change one into the other. Mulattoes were a "degenerate Hybrid race" (97). They might be more intelligent than pure Negroes but they...
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
...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...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the COVID-19 pandemic is the philanthropic and public perception that the conditions for folks have changed enough that mutual aid is not necessary even as we continue to field a...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...of their images. That has changed in recent years thanks to the work of some dogged historians and archivists. Knowledge about local photographers has grown since the 1970s when scholars,...
Sweep
...reclaim. Because I don't get home much anymore, I notice the smallest scintilla of change, every burnt-out trailer and newly paved road, and the larger, slower change that is exponential,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...would change if we could just remove the profit motive," my cousins nodded in slow agreement. There it was, so clear—If you are a working person, and have no hope...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...a storage room. That was the break room. They would change clothes, the workers." Top, Isaac Scott, Leflore County, Mississippi, ca. 1983. Bottom, Edna Scott's cafeteria, Leflore County, Mississippi, ca....
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...1850s, slaveholders in Washington used foreign policy to support this worldview. Free trade with Great Britain, penetration of slave-grown commodities in markets across the globe, and significant changes in the...