Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...would probably have been seen as disruptive in more traditional households. Women may have been more likely to use sewing machines during the day and to save hand sewing for...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...bring a rapid deterioration in their condition, especially if they moved to a colder climate. The (allegedly) high mortality and morbidity rates of free blacks in the North, Nott claimed,...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...published by Jo Ann Carrigan, Alan Kraut, Alexandra Stern, and Natalia Molina. The authority of US public health officials represented one of the most successful ways to construct and enforce...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...car show, but do not attend the monthly meetings. Club members must own American-made classic cars ranging in model year from 1900 to 1972. Restoration need not be completely authentic,...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...about runaway slaves. While most databases do not yet provide features like transcripts, there are a number of useful tools available for researchers and students. UNCG has created the Digital...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...“People believe wholeheartedly that God doesn’t want us to mix.”1Steve Suitts, Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement (Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2020), 71. Whatever their purported...
Residues of Border Control
...made. –Sophie Gee, Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth Century Imagination, p. 17 The photographs are a means of making “real” (or “more real”) matters that the privileged or the...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...and the structure of the book. He begins each chapter with a discussion of those who experienced the most extreme forced relocation (interstate migrants) and ends with those he argues...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...never ended."6The precise motivations behind the 1979 changes in the Muscogee Constitution remain deeply contested. Defenders of the 1979 Constitution maintain the change in tribal citizenship was motivated by a...