Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...of the tensions inherent in birth status hierarchies and slavery, all the while promoting conformity among the enslaved. By the eighteenth century, however, in certain parts of Latin America, some...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...crucial role in creating opportunities for structurally marginalized students, but the increasing racial isolation of poor children of color in high-poverty schools today means that children like Ward face even...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...of active reception. Why do we keep reviving and repremiering the classics? Because their essence, rather than the argument, lies in how the specific story is told today in the...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the singing schools as crude. Musicians such as Lowell Mason (1792-1872) began an ardent campaign against the singing schools and the kind of music they promoted. Mason and the "better...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...what our actual experience is in our poems, and we are not coding it. The code will be the fact that we reach out to you, Jericho, in that library...
The Carolina Piedmont
...three children today stands reconstructed on its original Durham County, North Carolina, site. The houses of plain folk have rarely received such attention. The Bennetts were typical of Carolina Piedmont...
Palomares Bajo
...were thoroughly othered, marked as "racially different." Their "miserable and abandoned hamlet" was contradictorily said to be "inhabited by dark-skinned gypsies and by descendants of the Moor[s]," a coded reference...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...America today"—praise that would please a writer who resists regional labels. Reviewer Alan Heathcock lauded Gautreaux's "invention of clever, out of the ordinary conflicts" and "his ability to render true...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...could smell traces of the enslaved, trapped in time and space; the mixed odors of sweat and human excreta exist there today. Fifteen miles from Cape-Coast Castle is Elmina Castle,...