The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...text-book for students and practitioners (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1909), 192. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in public domain. That the story...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...certainly peculiar. Joseph with his head tied in a pocket handkerchief, habited in an Indian Hunting short, and an old pair of cloth pantaloons, without neck handkerchief or collar. Thomas...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...at the Bell Aircraft bomber plant editing their publications. He continued to drink heavily, and he began to have an affair with a woman he met at the plant, calling...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...black oppression. Across the US South, immigrant-advocacy groups borrow heavily, sometimes directly, from a civil rights playbook, mapping the 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride onto the original Freedom Ride and...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...time Jerry) Jones and I met forty years ago as coworkers—freight clerks and passenger ticket agents at the Greyhound bus station in Jackson, Mississippi. I was a high school senior....
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...multiple histories. I can't really say Welcome to Fairyland was the book I initially sought to write because this book came to fruition as I worked to revise a separate...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...turns of phrase and in their relationship to the popular tunes with which Simpson chose to pair them. Simpson notes that "To the White People of America" should be sung...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...black! Brown-skinned spouses reduced confusion." The crux of these lines is "each morning." Because of their pale skin, straight hair, and blue eyes it seems that Paul's brothers must make...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...was firm, his head held high, his form imposing and vigorous; save the remarkable whiteness of his curly hair, nothing betrayed his age. As is common in that country, he...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...York University Press, 2009) is her first book. This essay is abridged from chapter five "Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movements across Atlanta Mosques". Dr. Karim's current research involves second-generation African...