African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...were evaporating. Herndon tried to rescue her efforts, appealing to David Belasco. But in spite of her repeated attempts to schedule a meeting, Belasco was unavailable. Had he changed his...
Brushes with War
...change with the decades. Our capacities for taking lives, and for saving them, seem to increase over time. But the combat artist seated with his sketchpad still looks very much...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...States is here generally broken into a number of subgenres of rap and bounce, though the definitions and boundaries of these categories are fluid and often change according to whom...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
But what does it take to change the system? When I was a teenager, growing up in Centreville, I longed in my body, without words, to leave behind me the...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...a simple three-part statement that argues for positive changes in the academic departments or programs that house these disciplines: An end to the actions that divide creative and critical/academic voices;...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...he declared, were separate species and nothing could change one into the other. Mulattoes were a "degenerate Hybrid race" (97). They might be more intelligent than pure Negroes but they...
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...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the COVID-19 pandemic is the philanthropic and public perception that the conditions for folks have changed enough that mutual aid is not necessary even as we continue to field a...