Quilting Conversation
...working in New York in the 1970s, thanks in part to a 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Abstract Design in American Quilts, that put historical quilts in conversation with...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
...ethnic politics in the United States, is the author of The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America (New York: New York University Press, 2012). Daniel A. Pollock, a longtime resident...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...was a slow ride, and I made him hold my purse. On the way home he said We should do this again sometime though we both knew it would never happen...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
We can all remember when the Covid reality fully hit, that moment when we were forced to confront the stark news and the hard arrival of abrupt change. I remember...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...virtually unrecognizable to those accustomed only to seeing plantations in the Delta or Carolina Piedmont. Whereas in most other places—as the work of Jonathan D. Martin, Calvin Schermerhorn, and others...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...Emory News. The section is expected to expand as the new website takes off. The website publishes original scholarship on a monthly basis; the first article is Boyd Lewis' "Living at...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...lived before prison, with no new defenses or support against that environment. Shannon Brockman in his Foundry room, Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket, 2009. Two factors significantly help ex-inmates...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...stereotypes than medical knowledge. Irish immigrants brought cholera, while Jewish ones infected New Yorkers with typhus. Riots erupted as a result of perceptions that Chinese men spread venereal disease. These...