Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...simpler minds of black women were also less burdened by disease-producing anxieties than white women, as long as masters supplied basic needs. Following on the work of historians such as...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...(Florida holds that distinction). Residents of Fredericksburg, Virginia, long identified with the domestic human trade, recently learned, after MPCPMP presented Eltis's research from the Voyages Database, that their city was...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...scenes of troubling revolution. Near its end, Swallow Barn tells the story of the rebellious slave Ned. After a long period of incorrigible behavior, he finally becomes a loyal defender...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
How To Navigate We’ve arranged Stand & Witness as a guided tour. We recommend that you move through the exhibition according to the numbered tour stops or “hotspots.” To start...
Antietam
...button, a bullet, a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around. On our way back to the bus a boy tripped me and I fell— skidding hard along the...
Making History
...pull out spoon after spoon after spoon. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...Greek, of course, and dead, and somewhere a maiden rattled in her chains. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 ©...
Olathe newspaper
...and they should thank their stars they do not live south of the Mason and Dixon line." Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces ...
Lawrence newspaper
...to sail in and do it again. Kansas demands for herself the privilege of doing the criticizing." Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces ...