St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...later called Jack Smith, an African who died free in St. Augustine.27Griffin, Patricia, ed., The Odyssey of an African Slave (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009). While Sitiki was not...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...exclude non-Spanish speaking customers and/or staff no exception to this policy. Thanks.75Victor Manuel Ramos, "Workforce Central Florida had an English-only policy," Orlando Sentinel Hispanosphere, October 5, 2011. Workforce Central Florida...
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;...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...coffee plantations. Fueled by the coffee boom, highland migration soared and for the first time the central mountainous region displaced the coast as the most densely populated area of Puerto...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...admirable policy of not having students work for free. Luckily, it didn't take long for then-managing-editor Sarah Toton to find the needed funding to add another position. I joined Southern...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...of acres of Central Appalachian forests and streams through MTR. Low-sulfur coal was needed to meet the more stringent emission requirements, and the Central Appalachian coalfields would find the extraction...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...about the status of freed African Americans in postbellum Virginia. This moment coincided with the emergence of a mental health reform movement across the US. Dr. Kirkbride was assisted in...
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
"TWUA" cheerleaders featured in Gloria Steinem's PBS series Woman Alive!, 1973–1974. In the spring of 1974, a dozen white and African American women and their daughters gathered outside the office...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...African character everywhere: African-born merchants dominated the city’s street economy by selling food and African-made textiles, while African languages were as commonly spoken as Portuguese. Bahia’s African populace also shaped...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Pride Houston. There were two queer bookstores, a free monthly magazine, and several free weekly papers. Soon, I was working for one of those papers, distributing copies all over the...