Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
...staged a march commemorating the assassination of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero four years earlier. Both CASC and SDCA distributed leaflets and information to people leaving church services about their respective...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_csc.asp. On racism and oppression in academia, see Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, "Dismantling Whiteness in Academe," Inside Higher Ed, November 10, 2017, https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/11/10/how-whiteness-structuring-interactions-higher-education-essay. On...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...in Central Florida Speak Spanish?"50Luis Martinez-Fernandez, "Orlando Develops Hispanic Accent," Orlando Sentinel, July 26, 2005; Victor Manuel Ramos, "Latinos at the Helm of Orlando's Public Broadcasting," Orlando Sentinel, December 11,...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...Sheeba Pawar, and Amel Omari, "Leading with HEART: Working Toward Health Equity with Anti-Racist Teaching," The Pursuit, University of Michigan School of Public Health, April 29, 2021, https://sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2021posts/leading-with-heart.html; Creary, Paul...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...University Press, 2007), 210-11; Melvin Patrick Ely, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004),...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...their daughters and granddaughters; today, I am eligible for Medicare. As I conducted additional interviews in 2019, mostly with retired coal miners close to my age, their bodies as well...
A City Divided
...among the region's elite. In his memoir, attorney and Georgia assemblyman Walter McElreath recalled the section as distinguished. Not simply the home of the city's emerging elite, Jackson Hill housed...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Elsewhere, men and women have been painted in blackface, to reference minstrel shows that so disparaged African American culture. Women are also implicated. Elegantly dressed and coiffed, they may hold...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...a chorus of animals: "'I'm hungry. I want to poop.' But sometimes they start talking in codes." How do we make our way into the coded life of other species?...