Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...swooshing forward, back, upside down, and he cried Aera! waving his sword, until the operator asked him to please keep all swords inside the car. He was a good sport,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...those of us who work in the educational system are like all the other workers of the world— including having the product of our labor, in this case our intellectual...
The Crowd He Becomes
...his News. The photographer follows every one, cocked and ready to shoot, but his lens can't catch them all so he just stands, tracing their paths, he just stands, lost...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...behind (22). Calhoun Monument, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1915–1930. Postcard by unknown creator. Courtesy of Daniel A. Pollock. Charleston's antebellum history as the capital of a slave society and a...
Quilting Conversation
...quilters, students, and activists. Michael Moon Michael Moon considers quilts as kōans ("What is this?") and, with several vivid examples, ponders the intense emotional power and spiritual force that includes,...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...preoccupation with sensory order and decorum was particularly intense in a city such as Charleston, South Carolina, built on slavery, where every social relation exhibited gradations of command and obedience....
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...the ideological value of the continued relegation of black people to things and, inextricably, carceral value for southern racial capital through the use of such objects for labor" (87). Rituals...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...on specific actions or policies of the school board (79). This occurred, too, alongside Wake County's own political revolution (27). The county had consistently backed Democratic gubernatorial and presidential candidates...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...of the "moral community" of border people. Some worked intentionally to evade criminal sanction, not revenue collection. Cattle rustlers in the late nineteenth century, along with bootleggers and drug runners...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...for any immoral use.' By forcing Blacks to live in overcrowded areas, racially restrictive covenants 'imposed social disintegration, social pathology, and personal ill health on them' (47). As head of...