Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...powerful case for the importance of medical men and ideas in undergirding slavery and white supremacy. About the Author Born in Scotland but currently residing in London, Peter McCandless has...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...death in the United States, of a Mexican toddler in Houston. Conservative talk radio pundits Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh immediately linked the flu virus with "illegal immigrants," the incompetence...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...identify others. More than thirty attended that first meeting. Since its inception, the purpose of the club has been to promote interest in street-rodding activities, to create fellowship, and to...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...but its last appearance is in 1807—a year before the United States prohibited the importation of slaves. This shift in the visuality of slavery might be of interest to scholars...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...the IRS, charging that its standards and procedures were inadequate to fulfill its obligation to deny tax-exempt status to racially discriminatory private schools. In 1984, the US Supreme Court held...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...is history's waning attention to the enslaved. Less interested in the process of internal migration than in slaves' experiences, Pargas positions slaves at the center of an economy built almost...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. (W.E.B. DuBois, "Of the Sorrow Songs," The Souls...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...control in our country," President Donald Trump claimed without justification in February 2020.7"Trump Says Coronavirus Is 'Very Well Under Control' in U.S.," Bloomberg, February 25, 2020, Video, 1:26, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-02-25/trump-says-coronavirus-is-very-well-under-control-in-u-s-video. When...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...the journey. There is no small bench by the road, there is not even a tree scored and initialized that I can visit, or you can visit, in Charleston, or...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...demands. Besides trade unions and groups organized around socio-economic issues, we find people involved in a variety of feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and LGBTQ+ struggles. In ordinary circumstances, they generally insist...