Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...they had never lived in the South, lacked the needed expertise and experience. Weiner's most innovative chapters, although drawn from limited sources, look at everyday attitudes towards disease. Laypeople of...
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...
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
...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...
Residues of Border Control
...need to be unearthed from layers of mud and dirt. This layering and the different stages of shredding and decomposition of the clothing suggest chronologies. Susan Harbage Page, Clothing left behind...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...west of Covington, near Turner Lake, which persisted into the early twentieth century, when the Indigenous people were finally forced off the land. (As they remembered, there were also "gypsies"...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) branch chief who served in the agency's COVID-19 response from late March through June 2020, the profusion of "lessons learned" reflects the magnitude...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...the Unitarian Universalist Association 3 (January/February 1989): 4. Plaza de la Constitution, St. Augustine, Florida, October 6, 2013. Participants placing carnations representing the 55 nations of Africa in a basket...