Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...County, West Virginia, for generations. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment" presents images taken in 2005 and 2006 during Dotter's trips to towns in eastern Kentucky and southern West...
A City Divided
...lining Jackson Hill, just east of the Atlanta's downtown, were uncomfortable with the presence of African Americans in the area, it did not surface publicly until 1910. That year, local...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Viranjini Munasinghe describes the plight of marginalized East Indians in the colonially derived West Indies Creole communities.29Viranjini Munasinghe, "Theorizing World Culture through the New World: East Indians and Creolization," American...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...the Southeast, edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006) to describe the seventeenth century demographic and cultural crisis that occurred in the Eastern...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Division, LC-USZ62-71022. Smithsonian Institution Building can be seen at the top center east of the Potomac River and Virginia, Washington Canal visible, proceeding from the Potomac River due east and...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...challenge to remain balanced and to flow well (53–4). By setting in motion a space where people flow, where rivers and mountains are alive, where the East is associated with...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Gulf South: one that would include eastern Mexico and the Greater Caribbean. This is not to say that they did not appreciate the political distinctions between these places, but in...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...ancestry. Because I'm from East Harlem, a US citizen, and was perceived as having assimilated to mainstream American culture, my closest Hispanic informants often referred to me as a Nuyorican...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...in the southeast continue to be produced, though the genre begins to show signs of exhaustion as its authors find it more and more difficult to convincingly present captive, dispossessed...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...fugitives from plantation slavery. Others had purchased their freedom in cash or through some form of service-based payments. In places like Santiago, the far eastern province of the Spanish colony...