Mapping Souths
...his map of the South, too, terminates in a project of warfare, this one to suppress the South's revolutionary intentions. Today, the positions staked out by Trescot and Marx seem...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
Review For more than twenty years, scholars have sought in article after book after conference paper to expand the timeline, reach, and definition of environmental concern and activism. This uncoordinated...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Burkholder, "Housing as a Human Right: Community Movement Builders Organize Against Gentrification," Georgia Voice, April 21, 2022, https://thegavoice.com/today-in-gay-atlanta/housing-as-a-human-right-community-movement-builders-organize-against-gentrification/; "Who are We?" Food4Lives, Accessed June 22, 2023, https://food4lives.org/about.html. Both organizations preceded...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...practices and education. The cooperative dedicated over 70% of its labor budget to employing local members, bringing jobs to more than three hundred families. It partnered with the Department of...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...of Blackness axiomatically raise questions of free and restricted movement; territorial boundedness and segregation; and fugitivity from the earliest plantations to the present-day prison-industrial complex. For McKittrick, the structural histories of...
Editors
...and Incarceration (University of Virginia Press, 2013) as well as Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity (University of Virginia Press, 2018). Her latest monograph is When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul...
Nigger Street 1937
...late-staying patrons early in country churches on Sunday mornings and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together ...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...never wrote coiled in field reports and requisitions, and three days later a church-bomb in Birmingham blew the stained-glass face of Christ like a dandelion head in the roadside weeds....
Off-Season
...for a desk on cinder block. He chuckled much like you at the sight of me, but the fields and breaking horses, justified my ninety pounds of lean. Next day...