Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...expand in academic disciplines beyond the boundaries of their origins set some fifty years ago as black studies, to extend beyond courses in literature, history, and the social sciences and...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...stand for bric-a-brac," a marble-topped mahogany table, two large upholstered rosewood sofas, two large chairs and five smaller chairs covered in the same material, and unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...hierarchies, to define and characterize bodies by sex, race, and place, and to enhance their authority as physicians and white men. In the process, they wrestled with the problem of...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...and policies and ordinary people's responses, experiences, and understandings of health and illness. Her current project examines the various protests against Agent Orange herbicides during and after the Vietnam War....
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...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...religious schools are effectively segregated and exclusionary by race. For this reason, Espinoza constitutes a regrettable, and significant, decision in the Supreme Court’s long and certain movement over the last...
Residues of Border Control
...immigrants who went through its doors between 1892 and 1954, the US Congress passed restrictive immigration legislation and attached anti-immigrant provisions to crime, welfare, and anti-narcotics legislation.10Desmond King and Inés...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...white southerners were up to their ears in a market system that drew its strength and vitality from a worldwide demand for cotton. Cotton and capital functioned as the dual...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...pyramids there, just like the ancient pyramids." Records suggest that Minerva, her husband Tom Anderson, and their children lived in Ouachita from around 1890 to around 1908, when they returned...