Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...questions require a nuanced definition of the "state," which Díaz does not supply. Like many authors, he uses "state" as a relatively interchangeable term that can refer to law enforcement...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...Kytle and Roberts, were heavy trafficking in human beings at the city's slave markets, slave owners who had virtually unlimited rights to inflict violence and other abuses on bondsmen and...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation https://vimeo.com/171940774 Question and Answer Session https://vimeo.com/174834636 About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...buyback component in which SCLC partnered with other organizations to purchase guns from residents of crime-ridden neighborhoods.18Stop the Killing, End the Violence records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. The Wings...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...After buying rural routes from the Kerrville Bus Company in 2012, the discount travel company Megabus recently discontinued service to small towns in Texas' Southwest Area Regional Transit District, leaving...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...daughter's marriage by making a shopping excursion to Charleston to buy special items such as fabric for a wedding quilt. According to family oral tradition, Samuel Snoddy also made such...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...havoc on farmers and ranchers across a broad swath of the United States. On Monday the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it would buy $170 million of pork,...
Sweep
...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...19, 2014, http://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/laff-review-arthur-jafa-conducts-multilayered-exploration-of-blackness-in-dreams-are-colder-than-death-159613/. Although two years have passed since my first viewing of Jafa's Dreams, Spillers's provocative statements, along with the film's powerful bridging of the lyrical and the sonic,...
Residues of Border Control
...a populated space and port of entry evoke humanity.2Judith Butler, Frames of War. When Is Life Grievable (London: Verso, 2009), 25. Susan Harbage Page, Yellow toothbrush, Brownsville, Texas, 2007. The populated...