Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
Introduction Mary E. Frederickson, Tending an early twentieth century Draper loom made in Massachusetts for use in mills across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. I heard the...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...bounce, tracing the music's birth, development, and connection to the long trajectory of poor and working-class African American music-making in the city. In doing so, he offers not only a...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...it as "a kind of cultural and economic counterdiscourse to hip-hop" (10), which she describes as "a platform that aggrandizes and exploits black pathology and dysfunction and then offers it...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...first-rate exhibition on the war in Virginia offers visitors to the Virginia Historical Society a new dynamic look at the past, one that will be sure to leave them more...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...and Tennessee to secede. These matters aside, The Slaveholding Crisis offers a thought-provoking analysis of how space and place drove slaveholders to refine their ideas about American exceptionalism and, ultimately,...
Residues of Border Control
...into the United States from the Rio Grande, 2008. This essay offers an interpretation of the Border Project’s intervention on the immigration public debate. By photographing the border area and...
Work
...of doffers and fixers, of motion. I dream thread streaming from cotton icicles mounted on frames. Spinning dripping cones feeding hungry looms that pulse and ripple as they weave. Shuttles...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...with Eddie Bo Part 5: Spitzer offers an interview with Allen Toussaint, speaking to the role of musical creativity following Hurricane Katrina Part 6: Spitzer discusses the meaning of Mardi Gras following...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...South. Two essays provide interesting case studies of local African American activism against lynching, a vastly understudied topic. Cha-Jua's offers an illuminating account of local black resistance to an 1893...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...that our field has dealt with that challenge over the past few decades is by sub-sub-sub-specializations. The digital revolution, however, offers us the opportunity and tools to pull back from...