Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...uprising orchestrated by discontent/ed slaves supported by naive abolitionists. All three of these novels reflect, in their odd portrayals of internal upheaval, the vision of a deeply troubled southern planter...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...support an entire society when political and economic institutions do little to support all kinds of families. Patricia Arquette as Olivia, mom to Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) and Mason Jr. (Ellar...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...members extended significant support to the new museum and used the musical’s high visibility to focus attention on the history of the unjust prosecutions. The Daily Worker, Drawing of...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...cordially support Taylor's claim that "in the cave you forget there is an outer world above you," the image recasts this attitude as an obliviousness to violence and terror. Bayard...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...the standard for courage and constancy, would first support Hillary, then switch to Barack Obama. For Hillary, observed an NPR commentator about this latest "battle of Selma," it's "almost like...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...the Lowcountry Digital Library at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. With grant support from the Humanities Council of South Carolina and a major award from the Gaylord and Dorothy...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...most New Orleans musicians lacked their clout (100). Roll With It argues that although Jazz Fest has been marketed as a way for tourists to support local musicians post-Katrina, its...