The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...North Carolina (Chapel Hill, Raleigh), before joining the rest of the group in Washington DC16Kōgakukyū, 101; Koya, Tengoku Amerika, Jigoku Amerika (Heaven America, Hell America) (Tokyo: Deido Shuppansha, 1951), 41....
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...have been, to use the words of one historian, "[a campaign that] sparked the country's first crisis over postal content."5Winifred Gallagher, How the Post Office Created America (New York: Penguin...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Clothing Workers Union in 1976 to form the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union of America (ACTWU). As the cameras of Gloria Steinem's PBS series Woman Alive! rolled, the girls,...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...de inmigración de América Latina que ha cambiado el panorama social, cultural y económico del sur de los Estados Unidos desde finales de los años ochenta. Los mexicanos componen aproximadamente...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...as "an archive that [she] can hold." Significance of the Occasion: A Letter and Comments from Charles Henry Rowell, Editor of Callaloo Dear Colleagues and Friends, Welcome to the 2014...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...(103). This multi-media interplay is a relatively new convention for academic writing. Here, old-school New Historicist methods comingle with explications of computer code and user interface to demonstrate how digital...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...used to be "Salt Lake," an estuarine habitat typical for coastal Florida. The name changed, however, alongside usage. In the 1920s real estate promoters began pitching new developments around a...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...to a "hemispheric south" where planters and railroad promoters envisioned business and trade networks across the Mexican borderlands and into Latin America during the last third of the nineteenth century...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...popularity came and went with an alarming ease following the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America. In the heady days following Henry...