On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...and Carla Lois. Barcelona: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, 2012) 120–33. Distributed at archives in Rio de Janeiro, some of these maps appear to be early studies for those...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...to Civil Rights Images."8Maurice Berger, "A Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images," Lens, New York Times, July 16, 2012, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/a-different-approach-to-civil-rights-images/. It is precisely the unexpected poetic quality of Parks's seemingly...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...and was about to receive a degree in English, I ought to read the younger brother's work. So I did. I read the novels Appalachee Red, Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...1836. Shortly after their arrival they began establishing their churches. Thlewarle Indian Baptist Church was established approximately three miles north-east of present Dustin, Oklahoma — formerly Spokogee Township, Indian Territory.1The...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...before the 1940s. My first major find appeared in the criminal records that, once I paired that data with immigration records and colonial records from the Bahamas, taught me that...
Editorial Style Guide
...well-qualified applicant, off-campus housing a surprisingly little known fact, an exceptionally well qualified applicant Fractions: Use hyphens when fractions are spelled out. seven-eighths, three-elevenths Half compounds: When part of a...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...intimacy in which viewers are invited to sit alongside. It is an image used in the film's promotion: Mildred sits in Richard's lap, holding his head close to her chest....
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...take advantage of work in construction, forestry, and oil production, started this shift in the wake of the destruction by the hurricane. Mexico only first appeared among the top-five sending...
The Shenandoah Valley
...promote railroad and coal mining throughout southwestern Virginia, Appalachia, and the Valley in the 1870s and 1880s. The beauty of the region attracted investors to build hotels and resorts,...