Residues of Border Control
...Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Mississippi figure among the top ten states. Immigrants from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America constitute approximately 53% of the...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Pennsylvania in 1995, yet singings proliferated in the eastern part of the state over the subsequent two decades, and spread to the central and western part of the state from...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
..."a transnational lens in the recovery of queer voices, lives, and experiences."4Capó, 7. Queerness is the central analytical tool through which Capó explores Greater Miami. In his history, Capó traces...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
Introduction Atlanta's feminist bookstore, Charis Books and More, founded in November 1974, remains a central fixture of Atlanta's Little Five Points, a revitalized inner-city business district that spills over into...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...a diverse Latino population. While Márquez draws readers’ attention to the role that gender plays in shaping Latino experiences, it is not central to her book. For that, we can...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Crumpacker of the San Francisco Examiner watched the Opening Ceremonies from a Hooters restaurant in Jonesboro, a blues club in the Virginia Highlands, and an African American strip club —...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...the figures with rates in Cuba. He offers a sympathetic portrait of the Cuban countryside and the possibilities for greater agricultural collaboration once the United States lifts its embargo. African...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Homes Broadside, 1873. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. The exhibit reveals...
The Chesapeake Bay
...African slavery in the Chesapeake colony remain obscure, but records indicate the arrival of Africans at Jamestown in 1619 and possibly earlier. Over the seventeenth century as mortality rates declined,...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...