Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...through the mega-ports of El Paso and Laredo. This incessant pulse of capital circulation, worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, forms the backbone of the US-Mexico economic colossus....
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...who spent his formative years as the son of cotton farmers in the wide open spaces of west Texas and later as a student at Texas A&M University (the state's...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...various places, including a "ten-year apprenticeship" in the US South, as well as his current home base in Detroit, Michigan. Reflecting on how location informs his artistic process, Kennedy encouraged others to adopt a "just do it mentality" by drawing...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...universe in a forthcoming Brotherman comic book to be released later this year. For more information on Brotherman comics and how to access related MARBL materials, visit the MARBL website. ...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...such as Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, and Coretta Scott King, only one year after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. The strikers succeeded in gaining wage increases and...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...region with lower percentages of racial and class-based diversity. Desegregating residential neighborhoods is central to the goal of educational integration, which has suffered setbacks in recent years. There is intense and...
And the Prize Goes to...
...scholarly writing. Students worked with Allison Wright—who sifts through some nine thousand online submissions each year as the managing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review—to develop an early-semester workshop on strategies and...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...lethal injection and the first African American executed since 1967. McCarthy, convicted of robbing, beating, and stabbing to death a seventy-one-year-old emeritus professor of psychology, was injected with one large...
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...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...gathered to hear three speakers representing a spectrum of professional backgrounds and perspectives. Chip Elliott, an animal trapper with over ten years of experience in the Atlanta metro area, promoted...