A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Black women destabilized hegemonic categories of crime and forged codes for living and navigating Jim Crow America. The blues became a vehicle through which "black women protected themselves from negative...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of the Blues," (December 6, 1952), in The Collected Writings of Langston Hughes, vol. 10: Fight for Freedom and Other Writings on Civil Rights (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001),...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Library on American Slavery, a database of nearly 3,000 legislative petitions, 14,500 county court petitions, as well as personal documents like wills and bills of sale. Professor Thomas Costa at...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties, http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/histcountymaps/index.htm; Ga. Acts, Dec. 3, 1832, http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu; Daniel Haskel and J. Calvin Smith, A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...in North America, thrust together a diverse, yet socially stratified population. "Fame and Infamy" forms the heart of the book, tracing the reciprocal evolution of Bourbon Street's international notoriety and...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...6, 2014, A1; Dexter Mullins, "Mississippi to Make History by Opening Civil Rights Museum," Aljazeera America, October 23, 2013, http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/23/mississippi-civilrightsmuseumtomakehistory.html. For more on civil rights tourism see, Owen J. Dwyer...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) as a model for understanding the consumption of American recorded music. His work also intersects with a growing literature...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain. A freeborn Black abolitionist from Ohio, Joshua McCarter Simpson opened his 1854 indictment of the hypocrisy...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...Colonial British Atlantic World, Laura Dassow Walls's Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America, and Britt Rusert's Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013). a concept predicated on the notion that intentions, not outcomes, are what matter: valuing diversity is considered enough, even if behaviors, structures, and institutions reproduce...