The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
Review "By branding the South as the racist section of the country," writes Brent Campney, "those narrating the identity of other sections have found a foil against which they can...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
Whenever the concepts of diaspora and indigeneity come together, scholars tend to ascribe oppositional power to them. Diaspora implies transnational if not global movement, displacement, and attenuation while indigeneity connotes...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...Patrol Agent Killed in Texas in What Senator Calls an Attack," New York Times, November 19, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/us/border-patrol-killed-texas.html. About the Author George T. Díaz is an assistant professor of history...
Religion and the US South
Introduction Hope Mills Rapid Lube Sign, Hope Mills, North Carolina, March 20, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Gerry Dincher. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. Religion has been a formative...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...in America. https://vimeo.com/478092922/d9ece1993b Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers performing "When Sunday Comes." From Bible Stories (1995). For many of the artists in When Sunday Comes, singing gospel was not...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...to Nothing but Still Fighting." Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Accessed March 25, 2021. https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica-82/manzor-webbert.html. Chamaco sumerge a los espectadores en la Nochebuena en La Habana, donde una hermana...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...847–858. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6186485/. The country also faces shortages of well-equipped healthcare facilities and healthcare workers. The health financing system in Bangladesh suffers from a lack of adequate funding, absence of appropriate health...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
Bransford: Before we talk about An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands, can you talk about your personal history with the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge? And then describe the Refuge in...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect."23"Chapter 1: Early Years," The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. Clayborne Carson, https:// kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/publications/autobiography-martin-luther-king-jr-contents/chapter-1-early-years. Excerpted from TRAVELING...