Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
William Brown, Emory University Mary Odem, Emory University Ana María Diaz Burgos, Traductor Published: 12 July 2011 William Brown and Mary Odem, Niños bailando en el día de la celebración...
Old Elementary
...hissing radiators, oil-polished wood floors, crayonwax, pencil shavings, the chronic dust of lead, chalk, faint fear—and the long hallways not hard for me to imagine empty, dimly lit, where I...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...within the circle and accessible by stairs. In both cases, the passengers are seated facing sideways. The former patent relies on precisely determined distances and heights such that the car...
Substantiation
...shade the one eye. A cruiser eases through the streets, searchlight in doorways, the driver white, dressed like a cop but for the rope marks at his throat, the bullet...
Stones and Shadows
...you like to live in New York City?" I search for ways to interrupt, to shut him up. But when I look left, he has become just a voice in...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...me and kiss me, talk that talk. 3. I don't know how to talk that talk. I am visiting friends of a family friend. These Creole ways are something I...
Letter: Blues
...frayed things and balding summer lawns, Watching TV baseball, shelling prawns. The women that we love! Their slit-eyed ways Of telling us to mind, po-eyed dismays. We need these folks,...
Darkly
...can't understand: already, maybe always being there. Maybe they were born into that vacant sky and they were always there, ready to force a choice so they wouldn't have to...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...different imperial pressures, call upon us to shift our framework for studying the history of knowledge in early America in several ways. First and foremost, these case studies demand a...