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...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...the picture is between the ominous image of the caverns themselves—in dialogue with the smooth borders of the German home, the cave's stalactites appear like the teeth of a monster—and...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...trapped in her cheap pastel poster. Maybe he'd say his life was like a brand-new house fallen in on its foundation. In thirty years the kudzu covers it, and no...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...likens a urinal (Duchamp's Fountain) to the consumable Elvis (records, posters, photographs, etc.) through the aesthetic of cheapness and raunchiness. Dirty Elvis is an analysis of Elvis' vocal performances on...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Living (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005). Unlike the common perception of humans as the cause of biodiversity loss, humans have enhanced or created biodiversity in their ecosystems through...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...