Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...in nearby Wellford. This gift was not named in Narcissa's will, so it may have been presented before the maker's death in 1881. History: The Parlor Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...powerful case for the importance of medical men and ideas in undergirding slavery and white supremacy. About the Author Born in Scotland but currently residing in London, Peter McCandless has...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...death in the United States, of a Mexican toddler in Houston. Conservative talk radio pundits Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh immediately linked the flu virus with "illegal immigrants," the incompetence...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...but its last appearance is in 1807—a year before the United States prohibited the importation of slaves. This shift in the visuality of slavery might be of interest to scholars...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...the IRS, charging that its standards and procedures were inadequate to fulfill its obligation to deny tax-exempt status to racially discriminatory private schools. In 1984, the US Supreme Court held...
Residues of Border Control
...crossers to hide their identity, practices that will continue to characterize their lives as undocumented immigrants in the United States. The violence involved in border control is narrated through its...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...is history's waning attention to the enslaved. Less interested in the process of internal migration than in slaves' experiences, Pargas positions slaves at the center of an economy built almost...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. (W.E.B. DuBois, "Of the Sorrow Songs," The Souls...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...control in our country," President Donald Trump claimed without justification in February 2020.7"Trump Says Coronavirus Is 'Very Well Under Control' in U.S.," Bloomberg, February 25, 2020, Video, 1:26, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-02-25/trump-says-coronavirus-is-very-well-under-control-in-u-s-video. When...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...the journey. There is no small bench by the road, there is not even a tree scored and initialized that I can visit, or you can visit, in Charleston, or...