Darkly
...how it's drawn, or arrive too late and miss that moment when he sees himself as his language does, when every other face becomes the glass but his own. Maybe...
Anniversary
...walk away, against the traffic, if it comes, up Washington, through the grainy air, and let this be a kind of justice, coming in the place you made, however late,...
Like Father
...He begs forgiveness For anything he may have done to make me Turn to abomination As he watches my eggs, scrambled Soft. Yolk runs all over the plate. A rubber...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...Appalachia as an isolated, out-of-step place, have little chance of generating the kind of diverse, hopeful coalitional work that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. West Virginia Teachers' Strike,...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...rights as US citizens. In an early example of non-violent protest that would characterize later civil rights efforts to desegregate the classroom, Mexican families withheld the names of their school-age...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...Hill (used previously by the Spanish military for the transmission of communications), Armstrong figuratively dominates the landscape by sweeping his arms over the mountains. Later he inscribes relevant cartographical information...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...the American frontier as a justificatory myth. The development of nuclear weapons represented the latest example of America fulfilling its historic destiny. The pioneering scientists of the nuclear laboratory had...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...all future actions" (7). Guzmán frames his subject as important only as precursor to the real movement decades later rather than as part of a deeper social justice struggle. He...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...universe in a forthcoming Brotherman comic book to be released later this year. For more information on Brotherman comics and how to access related MARBL materials, visit the MARBL website. ...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...twentieth century, the neighborhood was predominantly white working- and middle class, but as the housing stock aged in the late 1980s, more African American families gained access. Creekridge Park also...