The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...hit African Americans especially hard. Widespread poverty for generations following Reconstruction exposed hundreds of thousands of poor, rural southerners to hookworm infection and pellagra. By the end of the nineteenth...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...differing reactions to the plague and to its stages is amazingly on target. I'm in a book club, and our current reading is Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. It's a...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...research on Latinx migration, settlement, and everyday experiences.1Raymond Mohl, “Globalization, Latinization, and the Nuevo New South,” Journal of American Ethnic History 22, no. 4 (2003): 31–66. While scholarly writing such...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...where the African American women workers had gone on their lunch hours, about them and their children, about how they lived. I tried to remember just what it was the...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...Privacy & Security Act). Top, HB 1523 Is Anything but a "Warm Welcome." Graphic by ProtectThyNeighbor.org. Courtesy of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Bottom, Same-sex couples per...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...and after a series of heart problems, he died suddenly two weeks ago at 53. In an interview three years ago for American Routes Tuba Fats acknowledged the difficulty and...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...join eighteen other states that have introduced similar laws requiring voter identification at the polls this year. According to The Boston Globe, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas executive...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...flyer at the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention advertising "American shape-note singing," Winnersh, United Kingdom, 2012. In November, I remarked that "many new singers," such as those in Europe,...