Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
The Great South From 1873–74, towards the end of Reconstruction, journalist Edward King travelled the former Confederacy attempting to unpack the meaning of "the Great South" (1875) for largely northern...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...or events and hearing it. For me, it's a powerfully emotional song, because it deals with pride, cultural heritage, and a clear recognition of all the difficulties African Americans have...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...encompasses a great variety of policies, including social welfare, workers' representation, environmental protection and other social support mechanisms."16Paolo Gerbaudo, The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic (London: Verso, 2021),...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...coffee plantations contributed to the situation. "Uncinariasis has its great breeding place in the coffee plantations of Porto Rico," the two leading doctors of the eradication campaign reported, "and here...
Deep Ellum Blues
...ball began in 1954, when the US Supreme Court allowed Washington, DC, to raze and develop a section of the run-down Southwest neighborhood."7Baum, 52. This, significantly, was also the year...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...at USC that will explore changing race relations in the US South and Southwest About George Sanchez George Sanchez is Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...statute represents the best of America, it is the Voting Rights Act. It marries two great ideals: democracy and racial equality," she writes.9Regrettably, in referring to the origins of the...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...still believed in "those great ideals, those hopes and dreams." The problem for O'Brien was that collectively, Americans had lost "our national ability to identify facts, to absorb information and...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
Review Photographer unknown, Unidentified miners from southwest Virginia, 1930s. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Amid the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, numerous US cities and states are reexamining their...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...special their Appalachian farm was to our family and how rare my experience was. Even growing up in southwest Virginia, I remember having to argue with a couple of classmates...