Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Ohio; and New Orleans's Ninth Ward—locations to be checked off in early spring before the campaign turned serious. Selma and the Pettus Bridge signify victories by a people in a...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...of voting or holding office, whites in the post-Civil War South were initially required to sign oaths affirming that they had never borne arms against the United States or supported...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...lived her entire life in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Collections of family quilts are not unusual. What gives these special significance is their age, provenance, and the attention Mary Black...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...current debates on indigenous rights. The subject of the UNDRIP is a significant departure from my previous work on Native American literature and theory and it might as well reflect...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...West Indies as crucible of syncretic creation and significant global influence, Island People succeeds tremendously. Wade in the Crosscurrents Together, Lowe and Jelly-Schapiro have written one important work: Calypso Magnolia-Island...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...closer to Little Vietnam. I remember walking during my teen years through the streets of East Lake Meadows with community members, holding signs with slogans against violence and drugs. A...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...black children, enlargements of collectibles, which could be found at the front door of a white southern home or sugar plantation, signifying "Southern hospitality," carry bananas or food in baskets.15"Walker...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Unbridled commercialism, poor and unreliable public transportation, a deadly terrorist attack on Centennial Olympic Park: such significant failures shaped Samaranch's verdict that these Olympic Games were "most exceptional," but not...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...and courtesy of Pepe Murrieta. González Melo: El teatro lo hacemos entre todos, los artistas y el público. Basta recordar el origen griego de la palabra "teatro", que significa "mirar"....
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...of legislation, for example), but in and of themselves did not necessarily signify substantial and lasting change. The simplicity of my original questions faded as the labels of victory and...